Manufacturing Flashcards
What is Manufacturing?
The conversion of a raw material into something more valuable.
What are Primary Sector Activities?
Activities involving the collection of a raw material. This can be something like mining, farming, or fishing.
What are Secondary Sector Activities?
Activities like manufacturing.
What are Tertiary Sector Activities?
Activities that are necessary but do not produce anything. This can be something like banking.
What are Location Factors?
Available labor supply, nearby access to market, transportation, etc…
What are the two types of Labor?
Unskilled Labor and Skilled Labor.
Where is the Aluminum Industry of North America?
In the Columbus River Valley. It is there because of the access to Hydro-Electric Power.
The sector of the economy that works with producing raw materials such as lumber is the ______ sector.
Primary.
