Geography 1400F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Soil Fertility, Financial Services, Kayapo People
5 Dec 2012
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What are primary activities: economic activities that are concerned directly with natural resources of any kind. Examples of primary activities include: agriculture, fishing, gathering industries, extractive industries (ex: oil extraction, secondary. What are secondary activities: economic activities that process, transform, fabricate, or assemble the raw materials derived from primary activities, or that reassemble, refinish, or package manufactured goods. Examples of secondary activities include: manufacturing, processing, construction, power production, tertiary. What are tertiary activities: activities where people offer their knowledge and time to improve productivity, performance, potential, and sustainability. Examples of tertiary activities include: wholesaling and retailing, financial services, personal and professional services, quaternary. What are quaternary activities: economic activities that deal with the handling and processing of knowledge and information as well as distribution. Examples of quaternary activities include: information, research, management, quinary. Executive decision makers: involves high level decision making in large organizations.
