Secondary Economic Activites Flashcards
Secondary Economic Activities
Making things
Factors Of Building a Factory
Resource materials
Preferred place of the owner
Government/Eu Policy
Market
Transport facilities
Capital
Labour
Services
Effects of industry
Pollution,acid rain
Pollution
Smoke from factories can cause pollution.
Oxide gases rise into the sky from factories.
The gases can be harmful to humans, animals and crops.
The city of Beijing in China has so much air pollution because of the
factories that people have to wear face masks.
Acid rain
Acid rain happens when gases from factories are released into the air.
The gases mix with the clouds and rain
falls as acid rain.
Acid rain is harmful to plants and
damages soil and trees.
Acid rain wipes out fish stocks in seas, rivers and lakes.
Problems of acid rain
It washes nutrients from the soil. This causes trees to die. It also stops crops from growing meaning farmers have to use more fertilizer.
It wipes out fish stocks in lakes as fish cannot reproduce if the water in the lake is too acidic.
It affects the water quality which can be bad for our health.
It damages old buildings by wearing away the rock.
Solving the problem
We have to reduce the amount of pollution going into the atmosphere. We need to do the following things.
Use our cars less. Drive slower on the motorway. Use bicycles or public transport to travel to work.
Use more renewable energy sources such as solar and wind power.
Use natural gas instead of coal in power stations because it is a cleaner fuel.
Use filters on coal and oil power stations to reduce sulphur dioxide emissions.
Build more nuclear power stations. (Although these cause other environmental problems).
Heavy industry
Large and heavy raw materials
Usually expensive
Light industry
Light and small raw materials
Usually cheap
Name a light industry
Apple
Name a heavy industry
Honda
