Chapter 11: Primary Economic Activities

Question 0

Secondary Economic Activities

Answer 0

Workers in factories use raw materials to manufacture goods that people can buy. E.g. The manufacture of cars and computers

Question 1

Primary activities

Answer 1

Raw materials produced from the earth: farming, fishing, forestry and mining

Question 2

Tertiary activities

Answer 2

People provide services that other people require. E.g. Teaching and hairdressing

Question 3

Sustainable exploitation

Answer 3

People use a resource for their needs without putting the needs of future generations at risk

Question 4

Renewable resources

Answer 4

They do not run out. They are non finite. E.g. Fish, timber, water

Question 5

Non renewable resources

Answer 5

Finite resources. Resources that will run out. E.g. Oil, Minerals, Coal, Gas.

Question 6

Oil reserves

Answer 6

The known supply of oil undergrounds

Question 7

Meitheal

Answer 7

A group of neighbours and friends who worked together at a common task in rural Ireland

Question 8

Self-sufficient

Answer 8

Reliant on a country’s own resource

Question 9

Quota

Answer 9

A limit on the amount of fish that can be caught annually

Question 10

Traceability

Answer 10

Beef and sheep can be traced back to the farms where the animals were raised.

Question 11

Irrigation

Answer 11

Artificial watering of the land