Economic Geography

Coal, oil, and natural gas are all examples of

• A. alternative energy sources.

• B. capital resources.

• C. fossil fuels or nonrenewable resources .

• D. renewable resources.

Salley worked in a hair salon for years. She saved her all her money to make her dream of owning her own place come true. Today it happened. Pello Princesa Salon or Princess Hair Salon is having their Grand Opening!

Sally’s ability to operate a beauty salon is an example of a ___ economic system .

• capitalism

• traditional

• command or communist

• renewable

A ___ engages in tertiary economic activity.

• carpenter or roofer

• lumberjack or forestry

• orange grower subsitence or commercial

• police officer or teacher

A country with a mostly rural population engaged in mainly primary economic activities is probably a

• Developing nation.

• Developed or Industrialized nation.

• Newly Industrialized or Newly Developed nation.

• Primary nation.

The ___ level of economic activity is represented in this photograph. 

• Tertiary
• Primary
• Quaternary
• Secondary

Jaylynn has opened a dance club. Tien and Marcela are security guards at the restaurant. Which economic activity level is their work?

• Tertiary

• Primary

• Quartinary

• Secondary

Blake and Herman have opened a very successful furniture making factory. This is an example of which economic activity?

• Secondary

• Tertiary

• Primary

• Quaternary

Improving educational opportunity in a specific society will likely have which of the following impacts?

• increasing future manufacturing and agricultural economic activity

• increasing future tertiary and quaternary economic activity

• increasing future secondary and tertiary economic activity

• increasing future primary and secondary economic activity

What are the characteristics of a traditional economic system?

• Relies on government

• Driven by consumers

• built upon traditions, customs, and beliefs

A type of economy in which the government decides what and how much will be produced is a

• command
• market
• traditional
• mixed