Primary Sector

What is the primary sector responsible for doing? HINT: first sentence.

Name some jobs that area part of the primary sector.

More and more people in Canada join the primary sector.

• True

• False

The primary sector is shrinking in Canada because of better technology.

• True

• False

Which are examples of jobs in the primary sector? Select all that apply.

• Athletics

• Teaching

• Fishing

• Farming

Technology makes work in the primary sector easer.

• True

• False

Farmers take natural resources of plants and livestock and turn them into food for us to buy.

• Forestry

• Fishing

• Mining

• Agriculture

The people who work to cut down trees in order to produce wood for sale.

• Agriculture

• Forestry

• Fishing

• Mining

The workers who catch fish and harvest them.

• Agriculture

• Forestry

• Fishing

• Mining

The people who work in mines to extract valuable minerals.

• Agriculture

• Forestry

• Fishing

• Mining