PRIMARY SECTOR VOCABULARY

PRIMARY SECTOR, PRIMARY SECTOR, LIVESTOCK FARMING, FORESTRY, FISHING,

RURAL, RAW MATERIAL, YIELD
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Defition

Resources that are transformed into finished or semifinished products, by means of an industrial process.

Economic activity that obtains different products (for

example, meat, milk, wool, eggs) from farm animals
(for example, cows, sheep, chickens)

Economic activity that makes use of forest products.

Economic activities that obtain resources from nature

Economic activity that obtains cereal, fruit and

vegetable products from the land for consumption or
as a raw materials form industry.

Economic activity of catching fish and other aquatic

species for consumption or as raw materials for
industry

To do with the countryside

Amount of crop produced per square metre

Spanish word

LEASING, SHARECROPPING, FARM, OPENFIELD, BOCAGE, IRRIGATION SYSTEM,

PRODUCTIVITY, SILVICULTURE, REFORESTATION
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Defition

Man-made system bringing water to agricultural land

System by which a landowner allows other people to

cultivate the land for a period of time in exchange for
a proportion of the crops.

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A system by which a landowner allows other people

to cultivate the land for a period of time in exchange
for money
Growing and cultivation of trees
Fields are open and can only be differentiated by the
type of crops or the way they are being used
Small fields are separated by hedges, tres, stone or
wooden fences.
Replanting of tres in areas where they had
disappeared
rea of land and buildings used for growing crops
and raising animals
Relation between the amount produced and the work,
time, money needed to produce it.

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