Type of Industries

Question 1

What is the primary industry?

Answer 1

Industries that harvest natural resources

Question 2

What percent of total goods and services produced in Canada (primary)

Answer 2

6%

Question 3

Examples of primary

Answer 3

mining, fishing, forestry, agriculture, oil, and gas

Question 4

What is GDP?

Answer 4

Gross Domestic Product (an indicator of the health of a country’s economy)

Question 5

GDP of fishing, agriculture, forestry, oil and gas extraction, and mining

Answer 5

Fishing = 2.5 billion, agriculture = 13 billion, forestry 4 billion, oil and gas = 100 billion, mining = 18 billion

Question 6

Where are forestry industries located? Mining industries?

Answer 6

Forestry = Quebec, Ontario, New Brunswick, and British Columbia, mining = BC, Yukon, and Nunavut

Question 7

What is the secondary refining industry? Examples?

Answer 7

Process raw materials into industrial products, steel mills, paper mills, plastic manufacturers

Question 8

What is the secondary manufacturing industry? Examples?

Answer 8

Process industrial products into goods that people buy, carmakers, garment industries, furniture makers

Question 9

Where are secondary industries located?

Answer 9

Southern Ontario - concentrates on transportation equipment, southern Quebec (accounted for $169.3 billion of the GDP in 2012) - metal production, transportation equipment, and chemical production

Question 10

What is the tertiary industry? Examples?

Answer 10

Provides services and distribution of final products to the market, media, retail, entertainment, distribution centers, insurance, healthcare

Question 11

How many jobs does the tertiary industry provide?

Answer 11

7.5 million

Question 12

How many jobs does the secondary industry provide?

Answer 12

3.6 million

Question 13

What is the quaternary industry? Examples?

Answer 13

Provides intellectual services, concentrates on the transfer/transmission of ideas and info, and plays a large role in improving literacy rates, developing new and improved tech, and helping industries become more efficient, education, government, info and communication tech (ICT), scientific research, management

Question 14

What is the quinary industry? Examples?

Answer 14

Services in this sector focus on the interpretation of existing or new ideas, evaluation of new tech, and the creation of services, people in high positions with power and who make important decisions often belong in this industry, government officials, business executives, highly paid professionals