Primary Economic Act Flashcards
Overfishing
occurs when fish are taken from the sea faster than they can reproduce.
Primary economic activities
Those in which people get natural resources from the land or sea, e.g. farming.
Secondary economic activities
Those in which people process or manufacture products, e.g. car manufacturing.
Tertiary economic activities
Those that provide useful services for people, e.g. driving taxis. Education, health
Pastoral faming
farming of animals, e.g. dairy farming, raising beef cattle, and
raising sheep.
Arable farming
growing crops in fields, which have usually been ploughed before planting.
Mixed farming
both pastoral and arable farming.
Forestry
planting, management and maintenance of trees.
Primary economic activities
the taking and using of the earth’s natural resourc
Primary economic activity examples
Mining
Farming
Fishing
Forestry
Physical landscapes include
Climate
Sea coast
Soils
Relief/height/slope
Physical landscape
made up of visible, natural features seas, rivers and lakes, mountains, flat lands called plains, deserts
Why is Overfishing Happening?
Improved ships
Improved technology
motorised winch cranes
Netting: Monofilament nets