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20 Cards in this Set
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Accessibility
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The ease with which people can get to a particular place
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Development
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The way a country progresses and improves over time, usually measured by rising incomes and better quality of life
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Economic sector
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A major division of the economy based on the type of economic activity
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Energy resources
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The means of providing motive force, heat or light. They include electricity, gas, steam and nuclear power as well as fuels such as coal, oil and wood
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Energy consumption
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The amount of energy used by individuals, groups or countries
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Energy Gap
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The difference between the demand for energy, and the supply of it. The gap is made worse by the phasing out of fossil fuel use
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Finite energy resource
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Energy resources which have a fixed stock and will eventually run out. such as coal, oil and gas
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Fossil fuels
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Carbon fuels such as coal, oil and gas that cannot be 'remade' because it will take millions of years for them to form again
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Global shift
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The movement of manufacturing from HICs to cheaper production locations in LICs
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High-tech industry
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Economic activities that rely on advanced scientific research and produce new, innovative and technologically advanced products, such as microchips, genetic engineering, communications and information technology.
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Informal employment
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Types of work that are not officially recognised over which there is little or no official control
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Non-renewable resource
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A material that cannot be restored after use e.g. fossil fuels and minerals
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Primary sector
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Economic activities concerned with the working of natural resources- agriculture, fishing, mining and quarrying.
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Quaternary sector
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Economic activities that provide highly skilled services such as collection and processing information, research and development
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Raw material
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Anything that occurs in a natural state and that is useful to people
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Renewable resource
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A resource which is not diminished when it is used; it recurs and cannot be exhausted e.g. wind and tidal energy
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Secondary sector
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Economic activities concerned with making things, such as cars, buildings and electricity
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Sectoral shift
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The gradual change from an economy based on primary sectors, to one based on secondary to an economy based on tertiary and quaternary
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Tertiary sector
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Activities that provide a wide range of services and enable goods to be traded
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Transnational company (TNC)
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A huge enterprise which operates on a global scale and is involved in a wide variety of businesses
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