1. Levels of Economic Activity

2. Economic Activities  activities that create products that are bought or sold.
Examples: Fishing

3. Four Levels of Economic Activity
Rich countries have 4 Levels of Economic Activity.
Poor countries do not have 4 levels.
Four Levels of Economic Activity
1. Primary
2. Secondary
3. Tertiary
4. Quaternary

4. PRIMARY - Process of extracting (getting) natural resources.
Any country can extract their natural resources.
Example  Ozarka extracts water from a well.
Water Well

5. Factories SECONDARY – creating products out of the natural resource
Example  The Ozarka plant bottles and purifies the water they extracted.
Task  Choose a natural resource. Create a real-life situation that shows that resource going from the primary level to the secondary level.
Factories

6. Water Production – Is this a primary or secondary activity?

7. TERTIARY - Providing professional services and the services required to distribute the products.
Example  Kroger sells you and I the water.
Sales

8. Worldwide Bottled Water Consumption
QUATERNARY - Process of STUDYING a product research to improve on its production.
Example  Ozarka uses data from Utah State’s Water Research lab to increase their product’s purity.
Universities
Worldwide Bottled Water Consumption

9. Create a Cartoon of a Resources Journey Through the Levels of Economic Development
Pick a Natural resource. (It can be an agricultural product or mineral.)
Show its evolution as it is processed through the 4 levels of economic activity in a comic strip format drawn in your journal.
You need to include detail and effort.)