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Primary Economic Act
Key Words
| 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 make money. |
| secondary Economic Activities | are manufacture or processresources into useful products. |
| tertiary Economic Activities | Such as nursing or shop keeping .provide useful services. |
| Renewable Resources | This means it can be used again and again E.g Water,wind etc. |
| Natural Resources | Something provided by natyre e.g land. |
| Irrigation | The artificial watering of land. |
| Non renewable enegry | Something that when it is used it can be used again e.g oil etc. |
| Finite | Something that will run out e.g oil etc. |
| Artificial lake | A man made lake usually used for water storage. |
| Bord na mona | Set up in the 1940s to commercially explot irelands bogs. |
| cutaway bogs | bogs that remain after the peat in them have been harvested. |
| Ditcher | A machine used to drain bogs |
| Evoporation | water turining into vapour because of heat |
| Factory ships | ships taht can stay at sea for several months claering vast areas of fish |
| Grader | Machine used to level bogs |
| HEP | Hudro electric power |
| Inputs | Raw materials |
| Miller | machine used to harvest peat |
| Mixed Farming | Growing crops and keepig livestock |
| Non finite resources | Renewable resources |
| Non renewable resources | a resoources that canot be used again. |
| OPEC | Oil productes and exporting conturies |
| Outputs | Finished products |
| plankton | Microsopic plant life that fish feed on |
| pastoral farming | farming animals |
| Processes | jobs or activites e.g ploughing |
| Quates | an amount of fish that you are legally allowed to catch each year |
| Slean | Tool used to cut bogs in the past |
| Renewable enegry | enegry that can be used over and over again |
| Solar enegry | Enegry from sun |
| System | Has inputs processes and outputs e.g farming |
| Super trawlers | Lage ships used for fishing |
| Tillage | Crop Farming |
| Water cycle | Water is renewable and goes through a cycle.it goes through the processes of evoporation,condensation,precipitation and run off. |