Economic Activities

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

What is a tertiary industry?

• Provides a service for people

• Manufactures products

• Collects or produces natural resources

• Research and technology

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

Which belongs in the tertiary industry?

• coffee bean

• steel worker

• nurse

• farmer

which belongs in the secondary industry?

• cotton

• shoe factory

• coal

• sales clerk

Which belongs in the primary industry?

• cotton

• sweater

• shoe factory

• sales clerk

Goods and services are exchanged (or sold)

• Primary Industry

• Secondary Industry

• Tertiary Industry

Which level of development is a country where most people work at the subsistence level?

• More Developed

• Newly Industrialized

• Less Developed

Countries where many people work in research and development are in this level of economic development.

• More Developed

• Newly Industrialized

• Less Developed