What is a primary economic activities?

The resource extractive products from agriculture, fishing, hunting and gathering, or mining.

What is a secondary economic activity?

Those activities that take a primary activity and change it into something else. I.E. manufacture it.

What is a tertiary economic activity?

A service activity that connects commerce and trade. Producers can find consumers.

What is quaternary activity?

Economic activities concerned with information flow.

What is a quinary activity?

Research and higher education activities.

The planned selection and improvement of plants that will benefit human and animal consumption.

Crops reproduced from roots or cuttings

Cultivation by plant seeds that required a more complex process of planning

First Agriculture Revolution

Thought to begin in the region known as the Fertile Crescent around the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in present day Iraq.

Animals kept for protection or pets as people became sedentary. Animals were selected for traits that were beneficial for human use. Occurred after plant domestication.

Subsistence Agriculture

Growing enough food for survival. Land use is characterized by the "commons."

Tropical or subtropical agriculture where land is abandoned after becoming infertile.

Slash and Burn Agriculture

Slashing down vegetation and then a controlled use of fire to burn and quickly return nutrients to the soil. A shifting agriculture process.

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Question	Answer
What is a primary economic activities?	The resource extractive products from agriculture, fishing, hunting and gathering, or mining.
What is a secondary economic activity?	Those activities that take a primary activity and change it into something else. I.E. manufacture it.
What is a tertiary economic activity?	A service activity that connects commerce and trade. Producers can find consumers.
What is quaternary activity?	Economic activities concerned with information flow.
What is a quinary activity?	Research and higher education activities.
Plant domestication	The planned selection and improvement of plants that will benefit human and animal consumption.
Root Crops	Crops reproduced from roots or cuttings
Seed Crops	Cultivation by plant seeds that required a more complex process of planning
First Agriculture Revolution	Thought to begin in the region known as the Fertile Crescent around the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in present day Iraq.
Animal Domestication	Animals kept for protection or pets as people became sedentary. Animals were selected for traits that were beneficial for human use. Occurred after plant domestication.
Subsistence Agriculture	Growing enough food for survival. Land use is characterized by the "commons."
Shifting Agriculture	Tropical or subtropical agriculture where land is abandoned after becoming infertile.
Slash and Burn Agriculture	Slashing down vegetation and then a controlled use of fire to burn and quickly return nutrients to the soil. A shifting agriculture process.

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