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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 and tertiary |
| primary activities | people who work in natural resources ex farm fish and mine |
| secondary avtivities | people who work manufactureor process resoures ex factory |
| tertiary activities | someone who provides a service for someone ex teacher nursing and a shopkeeper |
| renewable resources | something that you can use over and over again ex water |
| natural resources | something provided by nature ex wind, tides |
| irrigation | artificial watering of land ex oil |
| non renewable resources | something that you cant use over and over again ex oil |
| finite | something that would eventually run out ex oil and gas |
| artificial lake | a man made lake |
| bord na mona | irelands bogs |
| cutaway bogs | bogs that remain after the peat has been harvested |
| ditcher | a machine that drains bogs |
| evaporation | water turning into vapor because of the heat |
| grader | machine used to level bogs |
| hep | hydro electric power |
| inputs | raw materials |
| miller | growing crops and keeping livestock |
| opec | oil producing and exporting countries |
| outputs |