Economical Geography Flashcards
Secondary industrial sector.
Processing raw materials and manufactured goods.
Tertiary industrial sector.
Provision of a service. Selling the product.
Quaternary industrial sector.
Provision of information and administrative services. Making schedules for the miners and sellers.
Deindustrialisation.
When tertiary and quaternary sectors are more attractive to people and such become the dominating sectors. Happens when machines take over jobs from humans or when countries abroad compete with much lower prices.
Heavy industries.
Heavily dependant on their raw materials and are bulky in operation. Iron and steel producing for example.
Light industries.
Put emphasis on on accessibility and aren’t as dependant on the raw materials. Electronics is one sector.
Primary industrial sector.
The extraction of raw material. Mining.
How are the amount of people working distributed between the 4 sectors in more developed countries? Why?
Higher on 3:d and 4:th, and in some cases 2:nd. Much due to deindustrialisation. High education levels gives jobs in these sectors, and therefore the amount of people working there is a lot higher in countries where people are educated to a higher extent.
What is the ratio in LED’s? Why?
Reversed from the MDC’s. The level of education is in general much lower, and therefore people get stuck in sector one and two.
Explain the concept of refinement.
When a country exports a raw material, for example tobacco, and have to import cigaretts for a higher price, which in turn sets the country in debt.
What are the benefits of refining the products?
Countries like Japan have used it very efficiently, where they import raw materials and export the most high tech electronics for a higher price since they are leading on the market, or at least they have been for a long time.
In what way can it be said that the market economy is resource efficient?
We do anything for production and therefore we are very efficient with time and people. Some state that we recycle and therefore are resource efficient, I would disagree.
Why is it important to strive for “sustainable development” and what does it mean?
Sustainable development is when we develop our products not to use a lot of new raw materials. We cannot use more resources in the way we are in order to sustain this earth.
What industries rely on to be close to the raw material? Why must they be here?
Heavy industries that rely on their raw materials. It would be inefficient and clunky to move them back and forth.
Commodity.
It’s a marketable item produced to satisfy wants or needs.
