chapter 4, section 4 resources, trade and the environment
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Chapter 4, Section 4Resources, Trade
and the Environment
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Economic Development• Most natural resources are NOT evenly
distributed throughout the earth.
• This uneven distribution affects the global economy, and as a result, countries specialize in the economic activities best suited to their resources.
• Geographers and economists classify all of the world’s economics into 4 types:
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• involve taking or using natural resources directly from the earth. They include farming, grazing, fishing, forestry, and mining.
• take place near the natural resources that are being gathered or used. For example, coal mining occurs at the site of a coal deposit.
Primary Economic Activities
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• use raw materials to produce something new and more valuable. –Ex: manufacturing automobiles,
assembling electronic goods, producing electric power, or making pottery.
• These activities occur close to the resource or close to the market for the finished good.
Secondary Economic Activities
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• do not involved directly acquiring and remaking natural resources.
• Instead, they are activities that provide services to people and businesses. –Ex. Doctors, teachers, lawyers, truckers,
and store clerks all provide professional, wholesale, or retail services.
Tertiary Economic Activities
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• are concerned with the processing, management & distribution of information.
• They are vitally important to modern economies that have been transformed in recent years by the Information (computer) Revolution.
• People performing these activities include “white collar” professionals working in:– Ex. education, government, business, information
processing, and research
Quaternary Economic Activities
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