Infrastructure

Background

You are the CEO of Nike. Your job is to create a trading plan for regional trade and global trade.

Key Questions:

1. What kind of infrastructure is best for regional trade? Global trade?

2. Will you need multiple types of infrastructure to conduct trade regionally? Globally?

3. How do goods go from secondary levels of economic activity to tertiary?

• Global Trade Trade with other countries.– I bought shoes at the mall that were produced in

the Dominican Republic.

• Regional Trade Trade in the United States. – I bought fruit that was grown in California at

Kroger.

Transportation

Education

Sanitation Services

Task Use p. 94 and define infrastructure.

Infrastructure

• Sketch or write real-life examples for the three other things required to keep an economy going…

1. Power

2. Communications

3. Water services

Google Earth Tour

• The Vice President of Transportation put together a Google Earth Tour for you to view to help you make your trading plan.

While viewing the tour…1. Have a book open to p. A6 so you can follow

along. 2. Explain how the St. Lawrence Seaway works?

3. List the types of infrastructure that you see on the tour.

3. In at least one complete sentence

Explain how Nike could ship shoes made in the Dominican Republic to Chicago using the St. Lawrence Seaway.

Use p. A10

4. What is another shipping route in the US Nike could use to ship shoes made in the Dominican Republic? - Hint You may need to transport the shoes by rail at the end.

St. Lawrence Seaway• Major shipping route on the US and Canada border

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Infrastructure Prediction

• You are the CEO of Nike.

• What types of infrastructure do you need to trade regionally? (within the US)

• What types of infrastructure do you need to trade globally?

Type Explanation Examples

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Infrastructure Data Sheet

1. Ports• Ports provide shipping routes that allow cities to import and

export goods.• Examples: Houston, Philadelphia, San Francisco

Ports near New York City

2. Railroads• Railroads provide bulk transportation from

region to region.

Example: Transporting cattle from Houston to Dallas by rail. Then from Dallas to Chicago by rail.

DALLAS

CHICAGO

3. Interstate Highway System• Highways provide ground shipping from region

to region.

Task Write or sketch a real-life example of ground shipping.

4. Technology

• Communication Internet, Cell phones– How can businesses use these tools for

global trade?

• Transportation New construction improving roads and traffic– Example I-10’s finished construction,

Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel.

4. Technology – Construction

Background:

There are three major ports on the Chesapeake Bay near Virginia and Maryland on the Atlantic Coastal Plains.

- Norfolk, Virginia

- Washington DC (capital of the US)

- Baltimore, Maryland

Chesapeake Bay

What would you do?

Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel

– A construction project in Virginia where they built a tunnel under the Chesapeake Bay to allow large cargo ships and cars to travel over the same area.

Construction

• How does the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel help regional trade?

• How does it help global trade?

5. St. Lawrence Seaway• Major shipping route on the US and Canada border.

• Led to development of major cities because of trade and jobs.

Other types of infrastructure

6. Airports

7. Internet

8. Cell phones

Assignment Help

Hint Don’t confuse infrastructure with type of transportation.

Infrastructure = Airports

Mode of transportation =

Infrastructure = Highways

Mode of transportation =

Physiographic Regions

• A group of places with similar physical characteristics.