Chapter 4: Job Sectors - 7 Social Studies

The PRIMARY sector involves

• Working with information

• Harvesting or extracting natural resources from the earth

• Providing a service in a hospital

• Working from home

The TERTIARY sector involves

• People working and providing services to other people. Like a teacher or doctor

• Someone who harvests and extracts natural resources

• People who design games using information

• People who work in manufacturing or construction

The SECONDARY sector includes

• Providing services to the public

• Using information and technology

• Extracting primary resources from the earth

• Using materials from the primary sector and using them in construction and manufacturing

The QUATERNARY sector includes

• Working with ideas and information

• Working with the resources from the earth

• Working in the service industry

• Working in manufacturing

An example of a job in a PRIMARY sector is

• dairy farmer

• construction worker

• video game designer

• teacher

An example of a job in the TERTIARY sector is

• Car manufacturer

• Software designer

• Logger

• Bus driver

An example of a job in the SECONDARY sector is

• Salesperson

• Fishing

• Potato chip manufacturer

• Computer operations

Job sectors are

• Categories of chapters in a book

• Categories of kinds of work

• Categories of products

• Categories of companies

Diversified economies is when...

• is when an economic system has too many jobs from two sectors

• is when an economic system only has jobs from one sector

• an economic system has a good balance of jobs in ALL of the sectors

• an economic system that has no jobs from any job sectors

What two job sectors are the most popular now? That have the most jobs?

• primary and quaternary job sectors

• tertiary and quaternary job sectors

• primary and secondary job sectors

• secondary and tertiary job sectors