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| Primary | economic activities which involve working directly with the Earth's rocks, soils and waters.
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| Secondary | economic activities which involve making or manufacturing something.
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| Tertiary | economic activities which involve providing a service that is useful to people.
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| Natural resource | things provided by nature which are useful to people.
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| Renewable resource | can be used over and over again.
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| Non-renewable resource | something that cannot be replaced once used (e.g. oil gas and coal)
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| Sustainable exploitation | resources are managed so that future generations will be able to use those resources.
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| Exploitation | To make full use of something and get benefit from it.
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| Irrigation | artificial watering of land.
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| Raised bog | Deep bog, found in the midlands, 8 metres deep.
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| Blanket bog | Shallow bod, found along the west coast, 3-4 metres deep.
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| Ditcher | used to dig drains to dry out the bog.
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| Grader | used to level the bog
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| Miller | harvest the peat by scraping a loose this layer on top of the bog.
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| Harrow | used to dry out the peat on the surface.
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| Ridger | gathers the loose dry peat into ridges.
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| Depletion | to decrease or reduce the quantity of something.
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| Continental shelf | sea bed surrounding a continent, up to 200 metres deep.
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| Plankton | micro-organisms that fish feed on.
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| Quotas | a limit on the amount of fish that could be caught.
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| Inputs | things needed to be put into the farm, e.g. cattle and tractors.
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| Processes | tasks and jobs done by the farmer throughout the year on his farm, e.g. milking
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| Outputs | produce of the farm and things the farmer sells, e.g. milk and vegetables.
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| Arable | suitable for growing crops.
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| Finite | having an end
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| Mixed farm | a farm that grows crops and raises animals
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| Net mesh size | the size of the holes in a fishing net
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| Overfishing | to fish so much that fish stocks are reduced.
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| Tillage | the production of crops.
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