Primary Ecomic Activities Flashcards
What does the primary activity jobs mean
Raw materials are produced from the earth
What are the three types of economic activities
Primary, secondary and tertiary
What are primary economic job s
Farming fishing and forestry
What are the natural resources
Rocks, soils and water
What does renuable and non-renuable mean
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
Where are primary economic jobs most popular
Poor countries
What are the two types of bogs
Raised bogs and blanket bogs
Where are raised bogs found
Shallow depressions in some midland counties
How deep can raised bogs be
Up to 12m deep
Where are blanket bogs found
In upland regions and in lowlands in the western seaboard counties
How deep can balanced bogs get
3-4 m deep
What are meithheals and what of they do
A group of friends who worked together at common task in rural Ireland. They cut turf for kitchen fires
What is a sleánn
A type of spade. It is an example of traditional technology
When was bord na mona established
1946
Why was bord na mona established
To exploit Irelands bogs and to make the country more self sufficient in energy resources
What does self sufficient mean
Reliant on a county’s own resources
How many years have irelands peat bogs Ben exploited for
The past 60 yrs
What is a bog calked when Peat is cut away from it q
A cut away bog
What are irelands cutaway bogs used for
They can be used for coniferous forests. These can be used in contraction and making wind turbines
Are fish a renewable resource?
Yes if they are sustainably managed
Why are Irish seas rich with fish
Because the seas off air cost form a continental shelf
What is plankton
It’s made from the suns rays and fish survive on it
What did Irish fishermen used to use whilst fishing
Currachs
How did fishing all change
When Ireland joined the EEC-EU in 1973. Ticks meant ireland had to share its fisheries
What fish are endangered
Haddock
European eal
Bluefin tuna
What are the reasons irelands fish sticks are depleting
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
Name 5 Irish port town
Howth Skerries Dingle Bunport Killybegs
Whay leads to overfishing
Modern we’ll equipped trawlers
What is being done to prevent over fishing
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
What is a mixed farm
A farm that grows crops and raises animals on the same farm
Where is mixed farming mostly found
Europe
What is farming
A system
What is the framing system made up of
Inputs
Outputs
And processes
What are inputs
These are things needed to be put into the farm
What are processes in the farm
These are the tasks or jobs done by the farmer throughout the year in the farm
What are out puts on the far. Q
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These are the produce of the farm and what the farm sells
Examples of inputs
Fuel Vehicles Seeds Money Time Machinery
Examples of processes
Harvesting Ploughing Milking Bailing Hedge - cutting
Examples of outputs
Animals Milk Hay Bailed Rice Grains Wool
What are the different types of farming
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)
What determines what farming you do
The quality and soil types
What are the impacts on the enviorment on farming
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
Describe three advantages bord ana mona brought to the Irish economy
They made Ireland more self-sufficient in energy resources so we reduced imports.
It created jobs
It gave us energy
Give two examples of peat products
Turf and bruiqquetes
Explain two reasons why overfishing occurs in Irish waters
Bauer our off air sea cost forms a continental shelf where most fish live and modern well equipped trawlers
