ECONOMIC ACTIVITY - St Fran#231;ois Girls College：经济活动-圣弗兰和# 231；ois女子大学.pptVIP

HUMAN GEOGRAPHY ECONOMIC ACTIVITY What is meant by Economic Activity? Things people do to get money. Bake sale at school Your parent’s job The taxi driver bringing you to school There are FOUR types of Economic Activity. Primary Economic Activity Secondary Economic Activity Tertiary Economic Activity Quaternary Economic Activity Primary Economic Activity This type of economic activity refers to jobs in cultivation and extraction. Agriculture (arable pastoral) Fishing Quarrying Mining Lumbering Secondary Economic Activity Refers to all manufacturing and assembling jobs. Activities that require some process to be carried out to convert a raw material into a valuable product. This type of economic activity takes products from primary and / or other secondary industries to create their product. Example : NESTLE ( milk peanut butter = peanut punch) Secondary Economic Activity (con’t) Some examples of secondary industries are: Nestle Kiss National Canners Assembly lines for computers Car assembly lines Garment factory Paper factory etc Tertiary Economic Activity Covers jobs that provide services. Activities where the end product is work performed rather than an actual material product Some examples of these are: trade transportation personal services commerce entertainment administration tourism Quaternary Economic Activity Any job which is focused on research is engaged in a quaternary type economic activity. Persons in this type of economic activity seek to find new ways and procedures of creating new products and /or improving on the ones already in existence. Some examples are: researchers scientists Important points to remember Primary Economic Activity = Cultivation Extraction Secondary Economic Activity = Manufacturing Assembling Important points to remember (con’t) Tertiary Economic Activity = Services Quaternary Economic Activity= Research Some questions for YOU! Identify the ec