Levels of Economic Activity Economic Activities activities that

Levels of Economic Activity

• Economic Activities activities that create products that are bought or sold. – Examples: Fishing Task Write three economic activities next to Examples: in your notebook.

Four Levels of Economic Activity • Rich countries have 4 Levels of Economic Activity. • Poor countries do not have 4 levels. Four Levels of Economic Activity 1. Primary 2. Secondary 3. Tertiary 4. Quaternary

• PRIMARY - Process of extracting (getting) natural resources. • Any country can extract their natural resources. • Example Ozarka extracts water from a well. Water Well

• SECONDARY – creating products out of the natural resource • Example The Ozarka plant bottles and purifies the water they extracted. • Task Choose a natural resource. Create a real-life situation that shows that resource going from the primary level to the secondary level.

Water Production – Is this a primary or secondary activity?

• TERTIARY - Providing professional services and the services required to distribute the products. • Example Kroger sells you and I the water.

• QUATERNARY - Process of STUDYING a product research to improve on its production. • Example Ozarka uses data from Utah State’s Water Research lab to increase their product’s purity. Worldwide Bottled Water Consumption

Create a Cartoon of a Resources Journey Through the Levels of Economic Development • • • Pick a Natural resource. (It can be an agricultural product or mineral. ) Show its evolution as it is processed through the 4 levels of economic activity in a comic strip format. You need to include detail and effort. (the more the effort the higher the grade!)