Primary Economic Activities

• What is primary activities?


  Jobs that involve working directly with the earths rocks, soil and water.
• Give examples of Primary activities


  Farming, fishing, forestry worker, miner
• What is a secondary activities?


  Jobs that involve making or manufacturing something.
• Give examples of secondary activities


  Carpenter, factory worker, baker, builder
• What is a Tertiary activities?


  Providing a service that is useful to people
• Give example of a Tertiary activities


  Teacher, Garda, shopkeeper
• What are natural resources?


  Things in the natural world which is useful to people. e.g. Land, rivers, seas.
• What are the different resources?


  Renewable resources and Non-renewable resources.
• What does renewable resources mean?


  Resources that can be used again and are sustainable.
• What does non-renewable resources mean?


  Resources that cannot be easily replaced and will run out eventually. They are also unsustainable.
• What is finite resources?


  Non-renewable resources
• What is infinite resource?


  Renewable resources
• What are the the stages of the water cycle?


  Evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection/ run-off.
• What is an input on a farm?


  Things that need to be put into the farm. they include cows, machinery such as tractors.
• what is a processes on a farm?


  Tasks that need to be done by the farmer throughout the year, this includes milking cow
• What is a Output on a farm?


  these are the product of the farm and what the farmer sells, this includes milk, vegetables.