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Primary Ecomic Activities Flashcards

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What does the primary activity jobs mean

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Raw materials are produced from the earth

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What are the three types of economic activities

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Primary, secondary and tertiary

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What are primary economic job s

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Farming fishing and forestry

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What are the natural resources

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Rocks, soils and water

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What does renuable and non-renuable mean

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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

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Where are primary economic jobs most popular

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Poor countries

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What are the two types of bogs

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Raised bogs and blanket bogs

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Where are raised bogs found

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Shallow depressions in some midland counties

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How deep can raised bogs be

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Up to 12m deep

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Where are blanket bogs found

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In upland regions and in lowlands in the western seaboard counties

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How deep can balanced bogs get

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3-4 m deep

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What are meithheals and what of they do

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

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What is a sleánn

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

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When was bord na mona established

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1946

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Why was bord na mona established

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

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What does self sufficient mean

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Reliant on a county’s own resources

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How many years have irelands peat bogs Ben exploited for

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The past 60 yrs

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

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A cut away bog

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What are irelands cutaway bogs used for

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

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Are fish a renewable resource?

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Yes if they are sustainably managed

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Why are Irish seas rich with fish

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Because the seas off air cost form a continental shelf

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What is plankton

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

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What did Irish fishermen used to use whilst fishing

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Currachs

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How did fishing all change

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

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What fish are endangered

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Haddock
European eal
Bluefin tuna

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What are the reasons irelands fish sticks are depleting

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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

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Name 5 Irish port town

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Howth
Skerries 
Dingle 
Bunport
Killybegs
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Whay leads to overfishing

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Modern we’ll equipped trawlers

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What is being done to prevent over fishing

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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

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What is a mixed farm

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

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Where is mixed farming mostly found

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Europe

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What is farming

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A system

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What is the framing system made up of

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Inputs
Outputs
And processes

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What are inputs

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These are things needed to be put into the farm

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What are processes in the farm

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

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What are out puts on the far. Q

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

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Examples of inputs

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Fuel
Vehicles
Seeds
Money
Time 
Machinery
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Examples of processes

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Harvesting 
Ploughing 
Milking
Bailing
Hedge - cutting
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Examples of outputs

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Animals 
Milk
Hay
Bailed
Rice 
Grains 
Wool
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What are the different types of farming

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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)

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What determines what farming you do

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The quality and soil types

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What are the impacts on the enviorment on farming

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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

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Describe three advantages bord ana mona brought to the Irish economy

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

43
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Give two examples of peat products

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Turf and bruiqquetes

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Explain two reasons why overfishing occurs in Irish waters

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

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