economic activities

Question 1

what is an economic activity

Answer 1

what people do to learn a living

Question 2

what is a primary activity

Answer 2

are jobs that involve working directly with the earths soil

rocks and waters eg. farmer or fisher or forestry worker

Question 3

what is a secondary activity

Answer 3

jobs that involve making or manufacturing something

eg. carpenter,factory worker and baker

Question 4

what is a tertiary activity

Answer 4

involove providing a service eg. teacher,garda,solicitor

Question 5

what is evaporation

Answer 5

evaporation occurs when the sun heats up water in rivers,oceans,lakes trees and plants and turns it into water vapour

Question 6

what is condensation

Answer 6

water vapour rises into the air

forms tiny droplets which turn into clouds

Question 7

what is precipitation

Answer 7

when so much water condenses the air cannot hold it anymore clouds get heavy water falls back onto eart snow,sleet,rain,hail

Question 8

what is irrigation

Answer 8

irrigation is the artificial watering of the land

Question 9

what is an input

Answer 9

things that need to be put into the farm eg. cattle

Question 10

what is a process

Answer 10

these are tasks or jobs taken out by the farmer each year eg.milking

Question 11

what is an output

Answer 11

these are the products on the farm and what the farmer sells eg. milk

Question 12

example of deciduous

Answer 12

oak and ash

Question 13

example of evergreen

Answer 13

spruce and pine