CONTENT STATEMENT
Activities and patterns of trade and communication create interdependence among countries in different regions (e.g., seed corn grown in Iowa and planted in South America, high-definition televisions manufactured in Japan and viewed in the United States, news outlets from many countries available around the world via the Internet, instant access to data affecting stock markets in different countries).
CONTENT ELABORATION
Increasingly, people around the world function in more complex economic and communication networks that foster interdependence. These networks provide access to resources that are unevenly distributed around the world. The networks promote the use of goods, services and information by encouraging their exchange. For example, modern phone communications allow Germans who purchase American computer systems with components produced in Japan and receive service advice from technicians in India.
Interruptions to economic and communication networks can result in disruptions to activities of people dependent upon the goods, services and information from other parts of the world.
EXPECTATIONS FOR LEARNING
Cite an example of a network global interdependence resulting from trade or communication involving at least three different countries.
Explain how a disruption to that network in one country could affect the other two countries.