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Primary Economic Act
Key words
Term | Definition |
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Economic activites. | Something we do to earn money. |
Types of economic activetes | Primary,Secondary,tertiary |
Primary Econmic Activites | How we use natural resources to mak money |
Secondry econmic activites | People that manufacture somthing |
tertiary economic activites | People that provide a service |
Renewable resources | It can be used over and over again |
Natural resources | Somthing that is provided by nature |
Irrigation | the artifital watering of land |
Non renewable energy | enery that cant be used over and over |
finite | means that once its gone its gone |
artifical lake | man made lake for water storage |
bord na mona | set up in the 1940's to commerically eploit irish bogs |
cut away bogs | bogs that have no peat left in them |
ditcher | a machine used to drain bogs |
evaporation | water turning into vapour |
factory ships | ships that stay at see for months clearing vast areas of fish |
grader | machine used level bogs |
H.E.P | hydro electric power |
Inputs | raw materials |
miller | machine used to harvest pet |
mixed farming | growing crops and keeping livestock |
non-finite resources | renewable resources |
opec | oil producing and exporting countries |
outputs | finished products |
plankton | microscopic plant life that fish feed on |
pastoral farming | farming animals |
processes | jobs or activites e.g ploughing |
quotas | an amount of fish you are legally allowed to catch each year |
slean | tool used to cut bogs in the past |
solar energy | energy from the sun |
system | has inputs processes and outputs e.g. farming |
super trawlers | large ships used for fishing |
tillage | crp farming |
water cycle | water is renewable and ges through a cycle. it goes through evaporation,condensation,precipitation and run off |
non renewable resource | a resource that can not be used again |