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# Alternative energy * Solar * Wind * Biomass * Tidal # Fossil fuels - OIL, COAL, NATURAL GAS # Manufacturing **3 economic sectors + examples** * **Primary sector:** Also called extractive industry; an industry that focuses on producing/extracting natural resources. * Example: Logging wood...

# Alternative energy * Solar * Wind * Biomass * Tidal # Fossil fuels - OIL, COAL, NATURAL GAS # Manufacturing **3 economic sectors + examples** * **Primary sector:** Also called extractive industry; an industry that focuses on producing/extracting natural resources. * Example: Logging wood * **Secondary sector:** An industry that focuses on making things using the products of primary industries. * Example: Suncor Oil, Husky Energy * **Tertiary sector:** Also called service industry; an industry that focuses on providing services. This sector includes everything else that is not part of the primary and secondary sector. * Example: Restaurant waiter, hotel reception, insurance **Reasons manufacturing companies move to another country:** * Proximity of raw materials * Location of customers * Availability of fresh water and/or power * Labor supply * Transportation * Political factors * Circumstances **Agreements:** * NAFTA: North American free trade agreement between Canada, USA and Mexico * CETA: Canada-European union comprehensive economic and trade agreement # The Service Sector * **Basic Job:** a job that brings money into an economy from somewhere else * Example: paper making * **Non-Basic Job:** a job that circulates money within a company * Example: restaurants, convenience # Unit 4: Demographics * **Demography:** The study of human population * **Natural increase rate:** The difference between the birth rate and death rate of a country (Birth Rate - Death Rate) * **Net migration rate:** Difference between immigration and emigration (immigration-Emigration) * **Doubling time:** The time needed for a population to double

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