//Primary Economic Activities Flashcards
Renewable energy source: Water
Using: homes, plants and animals, irrigating crops
Abusing: Sewage, industrial waste, plastic, fertilizers
Water cycle: Evaporation - Condesation - Movement -Precipitation - Run off/soakage
Dublin supply: Wicklow mountains, Ballymore estuary, treatment plant, leixlip resevoir, to the city
Getting water: Lakes - Reservoir - Water treatment plant -Homes/factories
Non renewable energy source: Oil
Using: heating, transport, industry
Saudi Arabia: 1/4 worlds oil, one of worlds richest countries, lifestyles changed, immigrant workers from Egypt, Pakistan etc, king rules, women treated bad
Finite: will be used up = diversity so economy wont crash
Corrib gas field: Co. Mayo, benefits: electrisity + energy, problems: oil spills, global warming
Peat and Bogs
-Milled peat: sold to Electric Ireland- electricity
-Horticultural products: moss peat, seeds, compost
-Briquittes: home heating
-Blanket bogs: West Ireland, shallow- 2.6m
Raised bogs: centre, deep- 10m
Peat cutting
Peat is...drained, harvested, transported, marketed Spade: sleán Grader: levels bog Miller: scrapes peat Harrow: drys scraped peat Ditcher: Drains bog
Fishing
Continental shelf: most fish are caught (coasts)
Overfishing: modern equipment, easy to catch fish, ships
Prevention: conservation zones, quotas for catches, reduce boats
Farming
Inputs: labour, animals, machinery, specialist, capital
Processes: milking, ploughing
Outputs: selling cattle, butchers, slurry, wool
Mixed farming: crops and life stock
Types: Dairy, beef, market gardening
Advantages and Problems of gas and oil exploitation
Adv: job - production eg. Corbin gas field
Tax revenue - companies eg. sheil pay taxes to Irish government, helping economy
Problems: environmental threat - fossil fuels, oil spills- destroy marine life, coasts, damage fishing and tourism
Damages natural scenic beauty of area
