Global Economics & Trade
📋 What it is
Countries trade because places specialise — each makes what its land, climate and skills suit best.
🗣️ Coach says
No country has everything, so places trade what they’re good at making for what they’re not. A cold country buys bananas; a warm one buys machinery. Trade turns "what we have" into "what we need".
🧠 Memory hook
Places specialise, then trade. Sell what you’re best at, buy the rest.
😂 Giggle
Why did the geographer get lost at the supermarket?
Because they kept looking for the latitude and longitude of the cereal aisle!
😲 Whoa!
A single container ship can carry over 20,000 boxes — enough to move a small town’s worth of goods across an ocean at once.
✅ Quick check: Why do two countries both gain when they trade what they specialise in?
Say your answer out loud first — then reveal.
Each makes what its land, climate and skills suit best, then swaps — so both get more and cheaper goods than making everything alone.
Specialisation + trade is the engine that links the whole world’s geography together.
🧪 Try it! (2 minutes)
Check 3 labels at home for "Made in ___" — plot the countries on a mental map.