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rimary economic ac
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| economic activities | something we do to earn money |
| types of economic activities | primary,secondary and tertiary |
| primary economic activities | people who work with natural sources farming,fishing and minimg |
| secondary economic activities | all manfacturing industries are secondary activitties E.g bakers |
| tertiary economic activity | tertiary include all kinds of useful services |
| renewable source | a source that will never run out |
| natural resources | sources provided by natural sources |
| irragation | artificial watering of land |
| non renewable source | a source that will run outE.g oil coal |
| finite | a source that will eeventually run out e.g crude oil in saudi arabia |
| artificial lake | a man made lake usally used for water storage |
| bord na mona | set up in the 1940 to commercially exploit Irelands bogs |
| cutaway bogs | bogs that remain after the peat in them has been harvested |
| dithcher | a machine used to draimn bogs |
| evaporation | water turning into vapor because of heat |
| factory ships | ships that can stay at sea for severeal for severeal months clearing vast areas of fish |
| grader | machine used to level bogs |
| hep | hydro electrical power |
| inputs | raw materials |
| miller | machine used to harvest peat |
| mixed farming | growing crops and keeping livestock |
| opec | oil producing and exporting countries |
| output | finished products |
| plankton | microscopic plant life that fish feed on |
| pastoral farming | farming animals |
| process | jobs or activities e.g ploughing |
| quotas | an amount of fish that you are legally allowed to catch each year |
| slean | tool used to cut bogs in the past |
| renewable energy | energy that can be used over and over again |
| solar energy | energy from the sun |
| system | has inputs process and outputs e.g farming |
| super trawlers | large ships used for fishing |
| tillage | crop farming |
| water cycle | water is renewable and goes through a cycle. It goes through the process of evaporation condensation precipitation and run off |
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