Geog Economic Activity Flashcards
What is the definition of primary?
Growing and extracting
Name the four types of activities into which work can be divided.
Primary
Secondary
Tertiary
Quaternary
What is the definition of secondary?
Making and constructing.
What is the definition of tertiary?
Selling or providing
What is the definition of quaternary?
Work involved in research and development.
Give some secondary jobs.
Building, car assembly and factories.
Give some tertiary jobs.
Retail, tourism and doctors
Give some quaternary jobs.
Designing new computers, developing genetically modified foods and developing new medicines.
Give some primary jobs.
Farming, fishing, forestry and mining.
Define ‘economic activities’.
Ways that people can make a living.
Give an example of how the economic activities in wealthy countries (More Economically Developed Countries) and poorer countries (Less Economically Developed Countries) differ.
In MEDC countries most people have paid jobs.
In LEDC countries most people make a living by growing their own food.
In African countries (which are LEDCs) most people farm for a living. What type of activity is farming?
Primary activity.
Which types of activities would many people in Japan and the UK be involved in?
Secondary and tertiary activities.
