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primary economic act
key words
Term | Definition |
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economic activities | something we do to earn money |
types of economic activities | primary secondary and tertiary |
primary activities | people who work in natural resources ex farm fish and mine |
secondary avtivities | people who work manufactureor process resoures ex factory |
tertiary activities | someone who provides a service for someone ex teacher nursing and a shopkeeper |
renewable resources | something that you can use over and over again ex water |
natural resources | something provided by nature ex wind, tides |
irrigation | artificial watering of land ex oil |
non renewable resources | something that you cant use over and over again ex oil |
finite | something that would eventually run out ex oil and gas |
artificial lake | a man made lake |
bord na mona | irelands bogs |
cutaway bogs | bogs that remain after the peat has been harvested |
ditcher | a machine that drains bogs |
evaporation | water turning into vapor because of the heat |
grader | machine used to level bogs |
hep | hydro electric power |
inputs | raw materials |
miller | growing crops and keeping livestock |
opec | oil producing and exporting countries |
outputs |