Global Economic Systems · Economic Geography

Types of Economic Activities

Distinguishing between primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary sectors of the economy.

Key Questions

  1. 1How does a country's dominant economic sector define its global status?
  2. 2Why are manufacturing jobs shifting from developed to developing nations?
  3. 3How does the rise of the service industry change the physical landscape of a city?

Ontario Curriculum Expectations

ON: Global Inequalities: Economic and Social - Grade 8
Grade: Grade 8
Subject: Geography
Unit: Global Economic Systems
Period: Economic Geography

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