1. Secondary and Tertiary Activities
Unit 5
Secondary and Tertiary Activities

2. Introduction to Manufacturing
Chapter 13 (text)

3. 3 Sectors of the Economy Primary economic activity
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Primary economic activity
involves the collection / extracting…
of raw materials / resources from the earth…
through farming, fishing, mining, and forestry.
Completed in the LAST UNIT!!!
EXAMPLES INCLUDE:
Farmer takes plants from the land.
Fisher takes fish from the ocean.
Miner takes ore from the ground.
Forester takes trees from the forest.

4. Secondary economic activity
involves turning a raw material or resource into a finished or refined product.
The processing or manufacturing raw materials into products for people to buy.
Also called the manufacturing or processing sector.
EXAMPLES INCLUDE:
Cows butchered into roasts, T-bone steaks and ground beef then packaged for sale at the grocery store.
Trees milled into lumber or pulped to make paper.
Fish gutted, filleted, put into frozen dinners sold at markets.
Ore refined into steel ribbons or copper wire or gold ingots.
This is sometimes referred to as “Value Adding”.
The tree would be much less expensive to buy than the lumber. The lumber has value added.

5. Tertiary economic activity
The focus is on people interacting with people and serving the customer rather than transforming physical goods
Often referred to as the service industry.
A service occurs when a person performs some type of ACTION.
EXAMPLES INCLUDE:
Nurses, doctors, mechanics
lawyers, teachers, waitresses, technicians
hairdressers, repair and sales people
Tourism is an important part of the tertiary sector & golf has become a thrust for investment in NL.

6. Primary economic activity
Secondary economic activity
Tertiary economic activity

7. Secondary Economic Activities
Manufacturing Operation
refers to a vast range of human activity, from handicraft to high tech…
Most commonly applied to industrial production…
Raw materials are transformed into finished goods on a large scale…
Ex. Assembly lines, factories, use of technology and machines common

8. Applied to the Systems Model
Inputs
~ materials and factors that go into making a product.
Examples:
raw material
power,
buildings,
land,
labor,
decisions,
capital,
Machinery,
Etc., etc…

9. Processes
~ those processes that change a raw material to a usable form.
3 types:
1. Conditioning
2. Analytical
3. Synthetic
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10. Processes 1. Conditioning: minimal change to a resource.
Simple processing of the resource.
Ex: logs into lumber or fish into fillets.
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11. Processes 2. Analytical:
resource converted to a number of different products.
Maximize use / utility of resource (pick apart and identify ALL potential uses)
Ex: cow into
leather,
meat,
manure,
milk,
Cheese etc..
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12. Processes
3. Synthetic:
several resources are COMBINED to make one product.
Ex: light bulb has glass, tungsten, nitrogen & aluminum.
Motor vehicles….
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13. Outputs
The finished product from a manufacturing process.
- Ex: outputs from a fish plant are fish sticks, frozen dinners or fish fillets.

14. For a small fish plant that produces frozen fish fillets, identify each component:
INPUTS
Raw material _____________
Power _____________
Buildings __________________
Land __________________
Machinery ______________
Labor ________________
Capital ________________
Decisions ______________
OUTPUTS _____________
PROCESSING: Conditioning, analytic or synthetic?_________