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Renewable resource

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Are resources that can be used over and over again. With careful management they will never run out

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Natural resource

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Are things provided to people that are useful

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Non-renewable resources

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Are resources that can only be be used once

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Irrigation

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Artificial watering of the land

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Oil reserve

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The known supply of oil underground

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Continental shelf

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Area of sea close to land in which large shoals of fish can thrive

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Primary economic activity

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Raw materials that are produced from the earth e.g. Fishermen miners, forest workers

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Secondary economic activity

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Workers in factories that use raw materials to manufacture goods that people buy

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Tertiary economic activity

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People provide services that other people require