ECONOMIC

ACTIVITY

LEVELS

Primary Activities-the production of foods and extraction of resources•Growing crops•Raising livestock•Grazing•Fishing•Logging•Mining

Secondary Activities

Definition- manufacture and production of goods like making cloth or furniture

Add value to raw materials

Iron Ore Steel Railroad tracks

Tertiary ActivitiesServices performed by people and businesses

Quaternary ActivitiesInformation processing and management

Computer programmer

General manager

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Less developed country- most people are engaged in primary economic activities (agriculture and mining)

Haiti Madagascar

Bangladesh

Newly industrialized country- large numbers of people are engaged in secondary economic activities

China

Thailand

More developed country- majority of the workers are engaged in tertiary or quaternary activities

USA

Switzerland

Physical geographic

factors affecting a country’s

economic level

Materials from nature that go into making a good (minerals, plant fibers, animal products and energy)

*Examples: rivers, lakes, oceans, lumber, cotton, iron ore, solar power, and wind power

Manufacturing is located close to these resources (Ex. Pennsylvania has coal deposits, so Pittsburgh is the center of the US steel industry)

Resources aren’t spread evenly around the world, this leads to very different ecosystems with different plants and animals

In some regions, farmers can grow many different types of food. In others, they aren’t able to grow much food at all

Petroleum- a key source of energy and an essential ingredient in chemical products

Created by the decay of microscopic animals that lived in the sea and they are spread out unevenly around the world

Human geographic factors

affecting a country’s

economic level

InfrastructureThe investment that society makes by building roads, laying railroad tracks, constructing power plants, building telephone and internet lines, and providing a structure of law and order

Components of Infrastructure

Education

Technology

Communication

Transportation

COLONIZATION

Industrialization

Human resources can be unevenly distributed

as well

Countries that were newly colonized provided incentives for people to move to these new colonies to increase the population. Ex. 4605 acres of land was given to each family for $184

Countries must have a large population and the resources to become industrialized

Human resources can unevenly distributed as

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China has a large population with a lower living cost than a more developed nation. Their workers are willing to work at a lower wage than a more developed nation

Highly developed countries have workers with stronger educational backgrounds who have the training to

manage resources more productively