Term | Definition |
Economic activities | Something we do to earn money |
Types of economic activities | Primary, secondary, tertiary |
Primary economic activities | How we use natural resources to earn money |
Secondary economic activities | Manufactured in a product |
Tertiary economic activities | When a service is provided |
Renewable resources | It can be used over and over again |
Natural resources | Something provided by nature |
Irrigation | Artificial water of plants |
Non renewable energy | Energy that will soon run out |
Finite | Something that will eventually run out |
Artificial lake | A man-made lake usually used for water storage |
Bord na Mona | Set up in the 1940's to commercially exploit Ireland's bogs |
Cutaway bogs | Bogs that remain after the peat in them has been harvested |
Ditcher | A machine used to drain bogs |
Evaporation | Water turning into vapor because of heat |
Factory ships | Ships that can stay at sea for several months clearing vast areas of fish |
Grader | Machine used to level bogs |
HEP | Hydro Electric Power |