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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 make money |
| secondary economic activities | are those in which people process or manufacture products |
| tertiary economic activities | include all kinds of useful services |
| renewable resources | it can be used again and again eg water |
| natural resources | useful things provided by nature |
| irrigition | artitificial watering off land |
| non renewable energy | cant be used over and over again |
| finite | once its gone its gone |
| artifcial lake | a man made lake usally used for water stprage |
| bord na mona | set up in 1940s to commercially exploit irelnds bogs |
| cut away bogs | bogs that remain after the peat in them has been harvested |
| dicher | a machine uesd to drain bogs |
| evaporation | water turning into vapor beacuse of heat |
| factory ships | ships that can stay at sea for sevearl months clearing vast areas of fish |
| grader | machine used to leval bogs |
| hep | |
| inputs | |
| miller | |
| mixed farming | |
| non finite resources |