Economic Activity and Energy Flashcards
Primary sector
Extraction of raw materials to be supplied to other industries
Examples:
-Fishing
-Farming
-Mining
Secondary sector
Where raw materials are assembled to produce finished goods
Examples:
-Manufacturing
-Assembling
-Construction
Tertiary sector
Providing goods and services for the public
Examples:
Medicine
Retail
Catering
Quaternary sector
Providing specialist information and expertise to above sectors
Examples:
-Research
-Programming
-Design
Clark-Fisher Model
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
Factors influencing location of economic activities
Raw materials
Employees
Infrastructure
Transport
Cheap land
Customers
Globalisation
Process by which countries of the world drawn together into single global economy
Informal sector
Unofficial and unregulated
Urban migration leads to underemployment
Need to avoid poverty
Malthus’ view on population growth and resources
Population growth proceeded at faster rate than increase in food supply
At a certain point, population growth would stop
Boserup’s view on population growth and resources
Increases in population would stimulate improvement in food production and developments in technology would solve problem
Coal
High world reserves
Newer mines and highly mechanised
Pollution
Heavy so difficult to transport
Oil
Easy to transport
Variety of uses
Low reserves
Danger of spills
Natural Gas
Less pollution compared to other sources
Explosions could occur
Fuelwood
Easily available
Replanting possible
Deforestation
Time-consuming to collect
Nuclear energy
Fewer greenhouse gases
Small amount of raw materials
Dangers of radiation
High cost to build and maintain power stations
