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primary econimic act
key words
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| economic activites | something we do to earn money |
| types of econimic activites | primary,secondary and teritary |
| primary economic activites | people obtain natural resources EX farming fishing and forestry etc |
| secondary econimic activites | people process or manufacture products |
| Tertiary econimic activites | when people are providing a service EX teacher,guard,bus driver |
| renewable resources | somthing that can be used over and over again |
| natural resoures | somthing provide by nature EX Wind,tides,solar |
| irrigation | artifical watering of dry land |
| non renewable energy | somthing that can not be reused Ex oil peat coal |
| finite | will eventually run out EX oil and gas |
| artifical lake | a man made lake usuakky used for water storage |
| Bord na mona | set up in the 1940 to commercially exploit irelands bogs |
| cutaway bogs | bogs that remain after the peat in them has been harvested |
| ditcher | a machine used tho drain bogs |
| miller | machine used to harvested peat |
| grader | machine used to level the surface of the bog |
| evaporation | water turning into vapor because of heat |
| factory ship | ships that can stay at sea for several months clearing vast areas of fish |
| finite | non renewable resources |