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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 tetiary |
| Primary Economic Activities | how we use natural resources to make money |
| Secondary Economic Activities | When people process or manufacture products |
| Tertiary Economic Activities | Somebody Who provides a service |
| Renewable Resources | Can be used again and again and again |
| Natural Resources | Something provided by nature |
| Irrigation | The artificial watering of land |
| Non Renewable Energy | Sources of energy that can only be used once |
| finite | Limited or 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 the heat |
| Factory Ships | Ships that can stay at sea for several months clearing vast areas of fish |
| Finite | Non renewable resources |
| Grader | Machine used to level bogs |
| HEP | Hydro Electric Power |
| Inputs | Raw materials |
| Miller | Machine used to harvest peat |
| Mixed Farming | Growing crops and keeping livestock |
| Non-finite resources | Renewable resources |
| OPEC | Oil Producing and Exporting Countries |
| Outputs | Finished Products |