Economic Activities and Development

What are economic activities?

• rules in a game

• a sport

• how a government is run

• ways in which people make a living

Uses natural resources or raw materials

• Primary Industry

• Secondary Industry

• Tertiary Industry

Uses raw materials to produce or manufacture something new.

• Primary Industry

• Secondary Industry

• Tertiary Industry

Goods and services are exchanged (or sold)

• Primary Industry

• Secondary Industry

• Tertiary Industry

Which belongs in the primary industry?

• cotton

• sweater

• shoe factory

• sales clerk

which belongs in the secondary industry?

• cotton

• shoe factory

• coal

• sales clerk

Which belongs in the tertiary industry?

• coffee bean

• steel worker

• nurse

• farmer

What is a primary industry?

• Employ people to make things.

• Employ people to collect or produce natural resources

• provide a service for people

• Research and technology

What is a tertiary industry?

• Provides a service for people

• Manufactures products

• Collects or produces natural resources

• Research and technology

The basic material from which a product is made.

• rescue resources

• capital resources

• human resources

• natural resources