Primary Economic Activities

Question 0

What are the 3 F’s?

Answer 0

Forestry, fishing and farming

Question 1

What are primary economic activities?

Answer 1

Primary economic activities involve the production of raw materials

Question 2

Name some jobs in the primary sector

Answer 2

~Farmers
~Miners
~Fishermen
~Quarry workers
~Forestry workers

Question 3

I what kind of countries do most people work in the primary sector?

Answer 3

In developing or poor countries

Question 4

What is another name for renewable resources?

Answer 4

Non-finite resources

Question 5

What are renewable resources?

Answer 5

Resources that never run out, if managed carefully

Question 6

Name some renewable resources

Answer 6

~Water
~Fish
~Timber

Question 7

Where does the Dublin region get it’s water supply from?

Answer 7

The Wicklow Mountains

Question 8

Why does Dublin get it’s water from there?

Answer 8

~Wicklow has a high annual rainfall
~The bedrock is made of granite, which is impermeable
~The mountains are thinly populated
~There are low levels of pollution there

Question 9

What is the resovoir called in the Wicklow Mountains?

Answer 9

Blessington Lakes

Question 10

Why is their such a high demand for water in the Dublin region?

Answer 10

Because there are over 1 million people living in Dublin

Question 11

What is irrigation?

Answer 11

Irrigation is the artificial application of water to land to assist in the production of crops

Question 12

Why must some farmers use irrigation?

Answer 12

In some countries the rainfall amounts are low and uncertain, so to sustainably grow crops farmers must use irrigation

Question 13

How do farmers use irrigation?

Answer 13

Farmers use irrigation by applying water to crops using canals, piping and spraying techniques

Question 14

What does irrigation help to do?

Answer 14

Irrigation helps to feed the world’s increasing population

Question 15

Where are large irrigation schemes found?

Answer 15

Australia, the Mediterranean and California

Question 16

What is irrigation used to grow in southeastern Asia?

Answer 16

Rice in paddy fields

Question 17

What is the Nile?

Answer 17

The Nile is Africa’s greatest river

Question 18

What is the population of Egypt?

Answer 18

77 million

Question 19

Where do most people in Egypt live?

Answer 19

In the floodplain of the Nile (surrounding and beside the Nile)

Question 20

What annually happens to the Nile?

Answer 20

The Nile flooded every year for a few weeks, when the flooding stopped farmers would grow crops on the damp soil as the water contained sediments to help grow the crops

Question 21

When was the dam built and why?

Answer 21

The Aswan dam began construction in the 1960’s, to control the flooding

Question 22

When was the dams construction completed?

Answer 22

1975

Question 23

How much water does the dam hold and what is the lake called?

Answer 23

The dam stores millions of tonnes of water and is called Lake Nasser

Question 24

Why was the Aswan dam built?

Answer 24

The dam was built to let water be released throughout the year so that farmers could grow multiple crops throughout the year, this provides additional food for Egypt’s population

Question 25

What are the disadvantages to the Aswan dam?

Answer 25

~The Nile no longer floods annually, therefore the natural sediments don’t fertilise the soil for the crops anymore so the farmers must by expensive fertilisers
~The canals that distribute the water are overrun with water snail which carries an infection that affects humans
~A lot of water is lost due to evaporation in Lake Nasser

Question 26

What are Egypt’s future plans?

Answer 26

Egypts future plans are to irrigate parts of the Western Desert

Question 27

What is oil a very important source of?

Answer 27

Oil is a very important source of energy

Question 28

What is another name for non-renewable resources?

Answer 28

Finite resources

Question 29

What are non-renewable resources?

Answer 29

Non-renewable resources are resources that will run out

Question 30

Name some non-renewable resources

Answer 30

~Oil
~Minerals
~Coal

Question 31

What are coal and oil a source of?

Answer 31

Greenhouse gases

Question 32

When will oil run out?

Answer 32

In the next 100 years

Question 33

Where is the most oil found in the world?

Answer 33

The Persian Gulf

Question 34

Where is most oil exported to?

Answer 34

America, Europe and Japan

Question 35

Why do oil prices rise and fall?

Answer 35

Oil prices rise when there is a higher demand or less oil

Oil prices drop when there is less oil needed or a drop in demand

Question 36

Name an oil producing country

Answer 36

Saudi Arabia

Question 37

How did the discovery of oil change Saudi Arabia?

Answer 37

The discovery of oil meant that vast wealth was flowing into Saudi Arabia, a place that used to just be a little known land of nomadic dwellers

Question 38

What did the export of oil bring into the country?

Answer 38

The export of oil brought in many changes such as:
~Jeeps and SUVs
~New houses
~Big towns and cities
~Migrants from surrounding countries such as Egypt and Pakistan

Question 39

What do people from Europe and America experience when they travel to Saudi Arabia?

Answer 39

The experience “culture shock” because the country is Islamic

Question 40

What kind of government do Saudi Arabia have?

Answer 40

The country is an absolute monarchy, the king rules without any elections

Question 41

What are the pros of Saudi Arabia’s oil?

Answer 41

~It has made Saudi Arabia a very wealthy country
~It has changed the lifestyle of many people
~People migrate to Saudi Arabia for jobs in the oil industry eg. it is creating jobs for many people

Question 42

What are the cons of Saudi Arabia’s oil?

Answer 42

~We rely on them for our oil supply
~They can higher the prices of oil at any given time
~If the country was to be at war or invaded we might get only a limited or no supply of oil

Question 43

Name three different sources of energy

Answer 43

~Solar energy
~Wind energy
~Geothermal energy