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Unit 5. Secondary and Tertiary Activities. Introduction to Manufacturing. 3 Sectors of the Economy. Primary economic activity involves the collection / extracting… of raw materials / resources from the earth… through farming, fishing, mining, and forestry. EXAMPLES INCLUDE:
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Unit 5 Secondary and Tertiary Activities
3 Sectors of the Economy • Primary economic activity • involves the collection / extracting… • of raw materials / resources from the earth… • through farming, fishing, mining, and forestry. • EXAMPLES INCLUDE: • Farmer takes plants from the land. • Fisher takes fish from the ocean. • Miner takes ore from the ground. • Forester takes trees from the forest.
Secondary economic activity • involves turning a raw material or resource into a finished product for people to buy. • Also called the manufacturing or processing sector. • EXAMPLES INCLUDE: • Cows butchered into roasts, steaks and • packaged for sale at the grocery store. • Trees milled into lumber or pulped to make paper. • Fish gutted, filleted, put into frozen dinners, sold at markets. • Ore refined into steel or copper wire. • This is referred to as “Value Adding”. • The log would be much less expensive to buy than the lumber. The lumber has value added.
Tertiary economic activity • The focus is on providing services to people. • Often referred to as the service industry. • EXAMPLES INCLUDE: • nurses, doctors, mechanics • lawyers, teachers, waitresses • hairdressers, repair and sales people
Primary economic activity Secondary economic activity Tertiary economic activity
Secondary Economic Activities Manufacturing Operation • refers to a vast range of human activity, from handicraft to high tech… • Most commonly applied to industrial production… • Raw materials are transformed into finished goods on a large scale… • Ex. Assembly lines, factories, use of technology and machines common
Applied to the Systems Model Inputs - materials and factors that go into making a product. Examples: raw material power buildings land labour decisions capital machinery Etc., etc…
Processes - the activities that change a raw material into a usable form. 3 types of manufacturing processes: 1. Conditioning: • minimal change to a resource. • Ex: logs into lumber or fish into fillets.
2. Analytical: • resource converted to a number of different products. • Ex: cow into • leather • meat • milk
3. Synthetic: • several resources are COMBINED to make one product. • Ex: light bulb has glass, tungsten, nitrogen & aluminum. • Motor vehicles….
Outputs- finished product from a manufacturing process. - Ex: outputs from a fish plant are fish sticks, frozen dinners or fish fillets.