Primary Ecomic Activities

Question 0

What does the primary activity jobs mean

Answer 0

Raw materials are produced from the earth

Question 1

What are the three types of economic activities

Answer 1

Primary, secondary and tertiary

Question 2

What are primary economic job s

Answer 2

Farming fishing and forestry

Question 3

What are the natural resources

Answer 3

Rocks, soils and water

Question 4

What does renuable and non-renuable mean

Answer 4

Renuable: you can get it back to what it was before eg. Water rocks soils
Non-renuable: you can’t get it back to what it was before eg. Oil coal turf

Question 5

Where are primary economic jobs most popular

Answer 5

Poor countries

Question 6

What are the two types of bogs

Answer 6

Raised bogs and blanket bogs

Question 7

Where are raised bogs found

Answer 7

Shallow depressions in some midland counties

Question 8

How deep can raised bogs be

Answer 8

Up to 12m deep

Question 9

Where are blanket bogs found

Answer 9

In upland regions and in lowlands in the western seaboard counties

Question 10

How deep can balanced bogs get

Answer 10

3-4 m deep

Question 11

What are meithheals and what of they do

Answer 11

A group of friends who worked together at common task in rural Ireland. They cut turf for kitchen fires

Question 12

What is a sleánn

Answer 12

A type of spade. It is an example of traditional technology

Question 13

When was bord na mona established

Answer 13

1946

Question 14

Why was bord na mona established

Answer 14

To exploit Irelands bogs and to make the country more self sufficient in energy resources

Question 15

What does self sufficient mean

Answer 15

Reliant on a county’s own resources

Question 16

How many years have irelands peat bogs Ben exploited for

Answer 16

The past 60 yrs

Question 17

What is a bog calked when Peat is cut away from it q

Answer 17

A cut away bog

Question 18

What are irelands cutaway bogs used for

Answer 18

They can be used for coniferous forests. These can be used in contraction and making wind turbines

Question 19

Are fish a renewable resource?

Answer 19

Yes if they are sustainably managed

Question 20

Why are Irish seas rich with fish

Answer 20

Because the seas off air cost form a continental shelf

Question 21

What is plankton

Answer 21

It’s made from the suns rays and fish survive on it

Question 22

What did Irish fishermen used to use whilst fishing

Answer 22

Currachs

Question 23

How did fishing all change

Answer 23

When Ireland joined the EEC-EU in 1973. Ticks meant ireland had to share its fisheries

Question 24

What fish are endangered

Answer 24

Haddock European eal Bluefin tuna

Question 25

What are the reasons irelands fish sticks are depleting

Answer 25

Information failure- fisher men don't know the size of avalible fish stocks there for he could take too much Pollution - pollution in the sea kills the fish Property rights- we lack these causing fishermen to travel out vey far Fishermen are often heavily subsidised which encourages them to catch more

Question 26

Name 5 Irish port town

Answer 26

``` Howth Skerries Dingle Bunport Killybegs ```

Question 27

Whay leads to overfishing

Answer 27

Modern we'll equipped trawlers

Question 28

What is being done to prevent over fishing

Answer 28

Creating a conservation box an quotas are being put in place to reduce the number of fish being caught. And mesh nets are fixed so that juvenile fish can escape

Question 29

What is a mixed farm

Answer 29

A farm that grows crops and raises animals on the same farm

Question 30

Where is mixed farming mostly found

Answer 30

Europe

Question 31

What is farming

Answer 31

A system

Question 32

What is the framing system made up of

Answer 32

Inputs Outputs And processes

Question 33

What are inputs

Answer 33

These are things needed to be put into the farm

Question 34

What are processes in the farm

Answer 34

These are the tasks or jobs done by the farmer throughout the year in the farm

Question 35

What are out puts on the far. Q

Answer 35

A | These are the produce of the farm and what the farm sells

Question 36

Examples of inputs

Answer 36

``` Fuel Vehicles Seeds Money Time Machinery ```

Question 37

Examples of processes

Answer 37

``` Harvesting Ploughing Milking Bailing Hedge - cutting ```

Question 38

Examples of outputs

Answer 38

``` Animals Milk Hay Bailed Rice Grains Wool ```

Question 39

What are the different types of farming

Answer 39

Dairy farming ( milk cheese butter etc.) Cereal framing ( whereat barley etc) Market gardening framing ( flowers fruit veg ) Pastoral (Cows calfs) Mixed farming ( calfs milk veg)

Question 40

What determines what farming you do

Answer 40

The quality and soil types

Question 41

What are the impacts on the enviorment on farming

Answer 41

Fertilisers- fertilisers used on the land to increase soil fertility can run off into streams and rivers damaging our water supply Slurry- slurry is made from animal waste organic matter. Such as hay and run off water from cleaning sheds, dairies etc. gathered by the farmer Illegal dumping- illegal dumping of silage slurry and sometimes milk can lead to rivers becoming over polluted resulting in the killing of fish. Careful laws and strict implimonation can ensure the problem does not speed

Question 42

Describe three advantages bord ana mona brought to the Irish economy

Answer 42

They made Ireland more self-sufficient in energy resources so we reduced imports. It created jobs It gave us energy

Question 43

Give two examples of peat products

Answer 43

Turf and bruiqquetes

Question 44

Explain two reasons why overfishing occurs in Irish waters

Answer 44

Bauer our off air sea cost forms a continental shelf where most fish live and modern well equipped trawlers