Primary Economic Activities

Question 1

The physical landscape made up of

Answer 1

It is made up of visible, natural features such as bodies of water, mountains flat lands called plains, deserts and soils

Question 2

What factors influence the physical landscape

Answer 2

Climate, soils, relief/height/slope, human activity, sea coasts

Question 3

The three names of the groups economic activities and the definitions

Answer 3

Primary economic activities
Those in which people get natural resources from the land or sea EG 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

Question 4

What is Farming 
what is pastoral farming
 what is arable farming
 what is mixed farming 
what is Forestry

Answer 4

Farming is the raising of livestock and the growing of crops.
Pastoral farming is the farming of animal e.g dairy farming.
arable farming is growing crops in fields.
Mixed farming has elements of both pastoral and arable farming.
Forestry the planting management and maintenance of trees

Question 5

Factors to determine if land is used for forming a Forestry

Answer 5

Some of the factors that determine if the land is used for farming and forestry include,
how fertile the soil is,
what the relief is like and,
what the climate is like.

Question 6

Influencing factors of the physical landscape fishing

Answer 6

Like forestry fishing occurs in Counties with Where the soil is too poor for profitable farming to occur.
People in these areas needed to make a living and cannot rely on Farming to do so historically.

Another influencing factor is Ireland’s coastline there fishing ports located in areas with good soil and easier access to the sea.