TERTIARY SECTOR

What is the TERTIARY SECTOR?

• The economic sector that provides people with services

• The economic sector that transforms the raw materials into semi-finished products

• The economic sector that obtains the resources from nature

• The economic sector that transforms the semi-finished products into finished goods

Tertiary sector activities are...

• Agriculture, livestock farming, fishing and forestry

• Mining, industry and construction

• Healthcare and education, transport and communications, commerce and tourism

• Teachers, doctors, firefighters, police officers...

Public services...

• Its aim is to obtain financial profitability

• Are created and managed by private companies

• Are created and managed by the government to guarantee basic services to the general population

• Provide citizens with secondary needs

HEALTHCARE is...

• A basic need

• A secondary need

• Usually provided by private companies

• A quite affordable (lowcost) service for the geovernments and people

In those countries where the governments invest more money in HEALTHCARE...

• Birth rates are higher

• Birth rates are lower

• Death rates are higher

• Death rates are lower

The intention of PUBLIC EDUCATION SYSTEMS is...

• The financial profitability

• To allow everyone the access to knowledge and to the job market

• To allow access to education only to people with money

• To allow access to secondary education only to pupils with good marks

The most suitable mean of transport for long-distance journeys is the...

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Which is the best mean of transport for transporting heavy goods at a low cost?

• River and sea transport

• Road transport

• Air transport

• Rail transport

It is not a mass-media communication platform

• E-mail

• Television

• Newspaper

• Radio

Which sentence is true about commerce?

• It only takes place in physical shops

• It is more intense in developing countries than in developed countries

• Marketing does not plan an important role

• It is physically concentrated in urban areas