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Recuperación Historia de David Barrio
Recuperación Historia de David Barrio
Exercise 1
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Multilateralism: A form of cooperation between at least three States.
Province: A principal administrative division of a country or empire.
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Exercise 2
Capitalism: An economic and political system in which a country’s trade and industry are
controlled by private owners for profit.
Economy: The state of a country or region in terms of the production and consumption of
goods and services and the supply of money.
Distribution: The way in which something is shared out among a group or spread over an area.
Whole Sale: The business of selling of goods in large quantities and at low prices, typically to be
sold on by retailers at a profit.
Consumption: The action of using up a resource.
Labour: Working most specifically on physical work.
Primary Sector: All those activities the end purpose of which consists in exploiting natural
resources.
Secondary Sector: Covers all those activities consisting in varying degrees of processing of raw
materials.
Tertiary Sector: Covers a wide range of activities from commerce to administration, transport,
financial and real estate activities, business and personal services, education, health and social
work.
Planned Economy System: An economic system where a government body makes economic
decisions regarding the production and distribution of goods.
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Consumer goods: Are products bought for consumption by the average consumer Examples:
Food, drinks, toilet paper, etc… Intermediate goods: Items used as input in the production
process of finished goods.
Examples: Soil, crude oil, sugar, etc…
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A person or legal entity that plays an active role in an economic process.
Exercise 3
Openfield: A management system created and an exploitation of agricultural land.
Polyculture: The practice of planting several kinds of crop species on the same piece of land
and at the same time.
Extensive agriculture: An agricultural production system that uses small inputs of labour,
fertilizers, and capital, relative to the land area being farmed.
Monoculture: The cultivation or growth of a single crop or organism especially on agricultural
or forest land.
Bocage: A landscape composed of small irregular plots.
Plantation agriculture: The form of Agriculture in which a single person or company owns a big
farm and grows a single crop.Slash and Burn: Is a method of cultivation in which forest are
burned and cleared for planting Livestock farming: Killing animals for food or for pleasure.
Fishing: The activity of catching fish, either for food or as a sport.
Forestry: The science or practice of planting, managing, and caring for forests.
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Some modern changes are climate change, soil erosion and biodiversity loss and from
consumers’ changing tastes in food and concerns about how it is produced.
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It is an openfield because is an extensive field, in my opinion I think that is a polyculture
because most of the times the polyculture fields are like this.
Exercise 4
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Raw Materials: Is the basic material from which a product is made.
Mines: Are an excavation in the earth for extracting coal or other minerals.
Natural Gas: Flammable gas, consisting largely of methane and other hydrocarbons, occurring
naturally underground.
Oil: A viscous liquid derived from petroleum, especially for use as a fuel or lubricant.
Hydropower: A renewable source of energy that generates power by using a dam or diversion
structure to after the natural flow of a river or other body of water.
Wind Energy: The process by which the wind is used to generate mechanical power or
electricity.
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Because the new main industrial regions is the North American Region with the USA and
Canada.
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Accessibility
Security
Competition
Business Rates
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Renewable: The source of energy that can be easily replace because is unlimited, comes from
the sun, water or the wind.
Non-Renewable: Sources that when the finish they will cannot be change, normally are coal,
petroleum or natural gas.
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Exercise 5
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Social Services: Are a range of public services intended to provide support and assistance
towards particular groups.
Technology park: An area where companies have offices and laboratories and do work
involving science and technology.
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Economic activities that don’t produce material goods but provide services for people
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Pros: Your items will be more safely and securely than in other place
Cons: Routes and timetables, can be slower than other transport modes
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Vehicles are now designed with fuel efficiency in mind which saves money for those who own a
vehicle.
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Trading conducted unfairly or unjustly, which may limit free competition in the market