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Primary Economic Act
Key words
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |