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Primary Economic Act
Key Words
Term | Definition |
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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. |