Economic Activity and Energy

Question 1

Primary sector

Answer 1

Extraction of raw materials to be supplied to other industries
Examples:
-Fishing
-Farming
-Mining

Question 2

Secondary sector

Answer 2

Where raw materials are assembled to produce finished goods
Examples:
-Manufacturing
-Assembling
-Construction

Question 3

Tertiary sector

Answer 3

Providing goods and services for the public
Examples:
Medicine
Retail
Catering

Question 4

Quaternary sector

Answer 4

Providing specialist information and expertise to above sectors
Examples:
-Research and development
-Artificial Intelligence

Question 5

Clark-Fisher Model

Answer 5

Pre-Industrial Phase:
Primary sector leads economy

Industrial Phase:
Secondary and tertiary sectors increase
Primary sector declines

Post-Industrial Phase:
Tertiary is most important
Primary and secondary decline
Quaternary begins to appear

Question 6

Factors influencing location of economic activities

Answer 6

Raw materials
Employees
Infrastructure
Transport
Cheap land
Customers

Question 7

Informal sector

Answer 7

Unofficial and unregulated
Urban migration leads to underemployment
Need to avoid poverty

Question 8

Malthus’ view on population growth and resources

Answer 8

Population growth proceeded at faster rate than increase in food supply
At a certain point, population growth would stop

Question 9

Boserup’s view on population growth and resources

Answer 9

Increases in population would stimulate improvement in food production and developments in technology would solve problem

Question 10

Advantages of informal employment

Answer 10

Often requires less skills/qualifications (1).
Unlikely to pay tax (1).
Requires little investment to set up informal business (1).
Reducing unemployment (1).