Primary Ecomic Activities

Question 1

Irrigation dam name

Answer 1

Aswan high dam

Question 2

Dam disadvantage

Answer 2

Buy expensive fertiliser
Evaporation
Worms in pipes

Question 3

Population

Answer 3

77 million in 5% of country

Question 4

Bog machines

Answer 4

Ditcher
Miller
Ridgerr
Harrow

Question 5

Ditcher

Answer 5

Drain bog

Question 6

Grader

Answer 6

Level surface

Question 7

Miller

Answer 7

Scrapes shallow layer of peat on surface

Question 8

Harrow

Answer 8

Drys layer pulled by tractor

Question 9

3way technolgy expand bogs

Answer 9

Machines
Transport
Advertising

Question 10

3 reasons overfishing

Answer 10

Modern technology’s
Ireland’s eu membership
Nets stronger and bigger

Question 11

New technologies on ship

Answer 11

Radar/sonar
Cold rooms
electric winches
Better nets

Question 12

2 solutions

Answer 12

Quotas
Mesh bigger
Conservation box

Question 13

Farm used

Answer 13

Pats farm mid Clare 70 hectares

Question 14

Inputs

Answer 14

Labour
Animals
Machinery
Specialist input

Question 15

Processes spring farm

Answer 15

Animals born

Spread fertiliser

Question 16

Prosesss summer farm

Answer 16

Breeding
Cut silage
Graze in field

Question 17

Process winter

Answer 17

Kept indoors

Sold at market

Question 18

Outputs

Answer 18

Sold cattle in Ennis and sixmillbridge
Sells lamb local butcher in Clare
Slury spread on field as fertiliser

Question 19

Irragation advantage

Answer 19

Stop drought
Stop flood
Spread people around Egypt
Farm food in successive yearsAdditional food