PRIMARY SECTOR
- What are the FIVE sectors of the economy?
- Give a definition for the primary sector
- Is the primary sector important for the economy? Why / why not?
- What does the primary sector consist of?
- Why has the percentage of people working in agriculture fallen since the Industrial Revolution?
- What do you know about agriculture in Almeria?
- Define commercial agriculture
- What is intensive farming?
- What is extensive farming?
- Explain the difference between rainfed and irrigation crops
- What is monoculture and what type of farmer would employ this method?
- What is polyculture and what type of farmer would employ this method?
- What are some of the benefits of commercial agriculture?
- What are some of the problems of commercial agriculture?
- What is it important to produce a surplus in agriculture?
- What are plantations?
- Where in the world do we typically find plantations?
- What type crops are produced on a plantation?
- What are the benefits of this type of agriculture?
- What are the drawbacks (disadvantages) of this type of agriculture?
- What are three types of fishing?
- What is aquaculture?
- Which country consumes the largest amount of fish products in the world?
- Which is the world’s biggest fish market?
- Which country has the largest fishing fleet in the world?
- Why is fishing important for the future of the world’s food supply?
- What are some of the typical products of Spain’s agriculture that give it comparative advantage?
- What is ‘comparative advantage’ ?
MINING
29. Which are the top 3 mining countries?
30. What was the first source of energy for humanity?
31. Which is the most used form of energy?
32. Name some of the mined minerals used in your smartphone?
33. What mined element will have to increase by 900% to build the batteries we will need for electric cars?
34. List four types of renewable energy?
35. Is nuclear energy renewable?
36. What are some of the pros and cons of solar energy?
37. What are some of the challenges facing renewable energy in the future?
38. Give some examples of biomass energy
39. Could we depend 100% on biomass energy in the future?
40. Which form of energy do think will be the energy of the future?
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
41. Describe the evolution of industry throughout human history
42. How did the Industrial Revolution revolutionise the world?
43. What were the two main inventions of the Industrial Revolution?
44. What are the THREE groups for classifying industry?
45. Give some examples of high-tech industries
46. What does it mean if an industry is described as mature?
47. What replaced craftsmen in the Industrial Revolution?
48. Which source of energy powered the Industrial Revolution?
49. Which invention at the end of the 19th century transformed industrial processes?
50. In the Third Industrial Revolution which innovation transformed the mechanisation process?
51. What are the main heavy industries?
52. What are capital goods?
53. Give two examples of capital goods
54. What are consumer goods?
55. Give two examples of consumer goods
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