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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, tertiary |
| Primary economic activities | How we use natural resources to earn money |
| Secondary economic activities | Manufactured in a product |
| Tertiary economic activities | When a service is provided |
| Renewable resources | It can be used over and over again |
| Natural resources | Something provided by nature |
| Irrigation | Artificial water of plants |
| Non renewable energy | Energy that will soon run out |
| Finite | Something that will eventually run out |
| Artificial lake | A man-made lake usually used for water storage |
| Bord na Mona | Set up in the 1940's to commercially exploit Ireland's bogs |
| Cutaway bogs | Bogs that remain after the peat in them has been harvested |
| Ditcher | A machine used to drain bogs |
| Evaporation | Water turning into vapor because of heat |
| Factory ships | Ships that can stay at sea for several months clearing vast areas of fish |
| Grader | Machine used to level bogs |
| HEP | Hydro Electric Power |