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