PRIMARY ACTIVITIES
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| test holes | test for present of oil and gas
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| continental shelf | shallow waters that streches for 200km off Irish west coast
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| Kinsale Field | gas field Co Kerry Ireland
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| Corrib field | gas field found off Co Mayo
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| OPEC | Organisation of Oil Producing Countries
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| a oil refinery in Ireland | Cork Harbour to refine oil for use
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| oil spill | oil spills damage the environment
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| finite resource | non -renewable coal, oil,peat, natural gas
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| infinite resource | renewable wind, wave, solar
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| uses of oil | domestic, manufacturing, transport, commercial
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| advantages of oil | cheap, plentiful,easy to handle and transport,clean to burn,efficient,
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| raised bog | are deep, 8m, located in the central plain
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| blanket bog | are shallow, 1-2m, mountains around Ireland
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| baggers | machines that cut large amounts of peat sods in one day
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| spoon harrow | used to harvest milled peat
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| milling | top centimeter of bog is rotivated into powder and dried, it is collected into long ridges and covered with plastic
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| electricity generation | peat is a fuel used to generate heat to power turbines to produce electricity
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| moss peat | used in gardening
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| pelagic fish | swim near the surface- herring and salmon
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| demersal fish | swim near the bottom,- cod. caught by trawling
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| shellfish | lobster, caught in pots
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| plankton | fish eat this
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| North Atlantic Drift | warm sea drift brings extras supplies of fish food to Irish waters and extra varieties of fish
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| overfishing | too many fish being caught leading to a decline of fish numbers
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| quotas | limit the amount of fish that can be caught
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| monofilament net | illegal nets, length, depth and mesh size are illegal, these nets ate invisible to fish
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| disadvantages of farming to environment | sprays add chemicals to the soil, fertilisers damage lake water causing the growth of algae, habitats are reduced for wildlife, dumping of farm waste
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| farm inputs | climate, land,stock,farm buildings, labour, machinery,capital,fertiliser, animal feed,
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| farm processes | ploughing,rotavating, planting, harvesting, milking, feeding, breeding
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| farm outputs | grain,vegetables,straw, milk,calves, fertiliser-manure.
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| advantages of developing bogs | employment, heating, reduces imports, generates electricity, exports
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| how Ireland uses energy | domestic, manufacturing, transport, commercial
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| preventing overfishing | drift netting is illegal,recording of sold fish, severe penalties for overfishing ,reduce the cost of salmon
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