A global company operates in many different countries.

A supply chain is all of the stages involved in producing goods, transporting them and selling them to customers.

Raw materials are things that can be grown or dug out of the ground and processed or used in the manufacture of goods.

Processing means making changes to a food’s natural state. An example is cooking beans in a tomato sauce and preserving them in tins.

Supermarkets and global supply chains

Geography

Global trade

Imports and exports

Patterns of production

Global transportation of goods

Ethical trading

This unit provides a foundation for moving on to 'Around the world in 80 days: What have we learned in primary geography?'.

This unit builds directly on 'Natural resources: What are they, where are they and why are they important?', extending and deepening pupils’ understanding of global interconnectedness by investigating how their everyday lives are linked to distant people and places through trade, technology and culture.

Global trade: how do we get our stuff?

Subjects which particular individuals may be sensitive to, eg, adoption, migration, bereavement or death, divorce, poverty, deprivation.

Depiction or discussion of sensitive content

the journey travelled by goods from many different countries

a company which trades with many different companies

A company which trades with many different companies.

A company which operates in many different countries.

A company which operates in more than one continent

Which is not a definition of a global company?

When did the first supermarket open in the UK?

the distance that food travels are called food miles

the distance the food travels from the shop to the buyers house

things that are made through the process of manufacturing (often in factories) 

things are that grown or dug out of the ground

things that are grown or dug out of the ground

the buying and selling of goods between companies

the exchange of goods, money and services within a country

the exchange of goods, money and services between countries

things that are produced, you can buy or sell them

things that people do for others in exchange for money

A company which operates in one different countries.

A large shop which sells lots of different food and goods.

A small shop which sells lots of different food.

Starter Quiz

What are commodities?