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Geography
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Primary industry | when you extract what you want. It involves changing natural resources into primary products |
| Secondary industry | Produces finished, usable products |
| Tertiary industry | also called the service sector, and provides services to businesses |
| Quaternary industry | looks for new ways to cut costs, find new markets, produce new ideas, new production methods, and methods of manufacture |
| Natural resources | Useful raw materials from the earth |
| Renewable resources | Sources of power that quickly replenish themselves |
| Non-renewable resources | Sources of power that can run out |
| Global warming | A gradual increase in the overall temperature of the earth's atmosphere |
| Greenhouse effect | The trapping of the sun's warmth in a planet's lower atmosphere |
| Greenhouse gas | A gas that contributes to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation |
| Ecological footprint | The metric that allows us to calculate human pressure on the planet and come up with facts |
| Conventional energy | Relies on the burning of fossil fuels. This can produce dangerous gases that often end up in the atmosphere |
| Alternative energy | Produced by harnessing the world around us and the elements. It does not create much pollution |
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