1. Economic Activities In Latin America
LG1: Analyze how physical and human geographic factors affect the location of economic activities and trade patterns in Latin America.
Economic Activities In Latin America

2. Concept Attainment: Economic Activities
As a class, we will categorize various jobs into the economic activity level that they belong in.
Raise your hand and give me an example of a job, and I will put it in the correct category.
Economic Activities
Primary
Secondary
Tertiary
Quaternary
What do you think the definition of these 4 terms is?

3. Primary Economic Activities
An economic activity that relies directly upon natural resources.
Examples:
Fishing
Mining
Farming
Ranching

4. Secondary Economic Activities
An economic activity in which people use raw materials to produce or manufacture new products of greater value.
Examples:
Turning wheat into flour
Milling lumber into plywood
Making fish into packaged fish sticks
Turning gold into a bracelet

5. Tertiary Economic Activities
Economic Activity where people are engaged in the service industry.
Examples:
Lawyers
Doctors
Waitresses
Firefighters
Mechanics

6. Quaternary Economic Activities
Economic Activities that focuses on getting, processing and sharing information.
Examples:
Education
Researchers
Government workers
CEO’s
Technology creators

7. Economic Activities: Assignment
Directions: There are 6 advertisements in your folder. Choose FOUR and complete the charts on your handout. You may have to be creative, but logical, when completing ‘quaternary’.
Primary
The gold was mined in South Africa.
Secondary
The gold is sent to a factory, melted down and made into a bracelet.
Tertiary
The gold bracelet was bought by Kay Jewelers and sold to the public.
Quaternary
The CEO of Kay Jewelers researches new ways to mine gold with less devastation on the environment.

8. NAFTA:
Tariff - A tax or duty to be paid on a particular class of imports or exports
NAFTA - As of January 1, 2008, all tariffs and quotas were eliminated on U.S. exports to Mexico and Canada under the North American Free Trade Agreement
NAFTA - created the world’s largest free trade area, and led to economic growth and rising prosperity in all three countries.
JOBS OPPORTUNITIES INCREASE IN MEXICO, CANADA, & U.S.!!!!!