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Geography
  • Module G - 5
  • Industry-Trade-Economy
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Industry
  • The  activity  that  produces  goods  or  provides  services
    • Specific  Industry - companies or groups  engaged  in  the  same  business ie. Mining,  Manufacturing,  packaging  or  banking
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 Three  broad  groups
  • Primary - industries that gather or extract natural resources
    •  Farming
    •  Logging
    •  Mining


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Groups cont.
  • Secondary - change  raw materials  into  finished goods
    • Packaging resources  to prepare for use or manufacturing
    • Processing
    • Treating


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Tertiary
  • Provide  services  rather  than  goods
    • Transportation
    • Communications
    • Tourism
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Industry
  • Industry requires 5 basic  inputs  for  production
    • Natural  Resources - raw  materials  used  to  produce  goods
      • Minerals
      • Timber
      • Land  &  Water
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Basic  Inputs cont.
  • Capitol - the  company’s  assets  used  in the  production  of goods
    • Buildings,  equipment,  machines,  trucks
    • Money needed  to  start  or  expand  business




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Basic  inputs  cont.
  • Labor - Human  activity  that  provides  goods  and  services
    • Workers  for  wages
  • Management - Supervising  and  coordinating  business  activity
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Basic  inputs  cont.
  • Technology - includes  all ways  people  use  tools,  machines,  materials  and  techniques
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Trade
  • Buying  and  selling  goods  and  services
  • Primary  goal -  to give  consumers the  best  goods  and  services  at  the  best  prices
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Trade  cont.
  • Money - medium  of  exchange
    • various  metals,  paper,  checks,  credit  card
  • Without  money  trade  would  have  to  be  direct  exchange
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Market  Places
  • Open air market - face  to  face trading
  • Retailers - large  stores  with  a  collection  of goods  that  are made  in  many  foreign  countries
    • mail  order -  catalogs -  internet
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Markets  cont.
  • Commodity  exchanges - sold  by  auction - wheat,  livestock,  petroleum
  • Stock  exchanges -  New York,  London,  Tokyo
    • companies  stocks  traded
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International  Trade
  • Buying  and  selling  by  different  countries
    • Imports - purchases  from  another  country
    • Exports - sales  to  another  country


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Trade  Barriers
  • Government  restrictions
    • Tariff - paid  on  imported  goods -  makes  them  more  expensive
    • Quotas - fixed  amounts  of  goods  entering  a  country
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Economy
  • The  trading  of  goods  and  services  on  a  widespread  basis
  • Businesses  will  intermix  trading   with  many  other  businesses
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Economy
  • Capitalist -  private  citizens  own  and  operate  business
  • Socialist -  government  owns  many  businesses
  • Communists - government owns  almost all business and property
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G N P
  • Gross  National  Product
    • total  value  of  all  goods  and  services
  • GNP per capita -  GNP divided  by  population