Economic Activities? Ask yourself the following question: How do we extract (take) the natural resources from the earth?
The answer is: through primary economic activities.
Primary economic activities involve the taking and using of the earth’s natural resources. Examples of these activities include mining, farming, fishing and forestry.
A 1
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B
2
C
3
Working with others:
Working with your classmate, match each of the natural resources (images 1, 2 and 3) with the primary activity that extracted them.
