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What is transportation?
Transportation is the moving of goods, people, or animals from one place to another.
Why do we want to move goods across the states?
No single region can produce everything in that region that everyone needs and wants.

Regions depend on each other for goods, services, and resources.
What is it called when regions depend on each other for goods, services, and resources?
Regions that depend on each other are economically interdependent.
How do interdependent regions get almost anything they need and want?
Transportation helps regions get almost anything the need and want.
What is globalization?
Globalization is using resources, raw materials, and services from several countries.
What is communication?
Communication is the way that people send and receive information.
Why are transportation and communication important?
Transportation and communication help businesses and consumers match supply and demand.

Fast communication and transportation are especially important for goods that can spoil, such as fruit and milk.

Fast communication and transportation make it easier to sell and buy goods in places far away from where they are made and grown.
What is an example of a way that your region helps the world economy?
Missouri exports timber and agricultural products around the world.
How have transportation and communication been important in the growth of trade around the world?
Transportation and communication have made it possible for businesses around the world to buy and sell far away.

Globalization is difficult without transportation and communication.
A newspaper story about globalization said, "Globalization is not good for the economy of the United States. American companies have buildt factories in foreign countries."

Which sentence is an opinion? Which sentence is a fact?
Opinion: Globalization is not good for the economy of the United States.

Fact: American companies have buildt factories in foreign countries.