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Mankind’s Use of God’s Resources
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Describes man’s hard work to make a living
Many kinds of jobs, but a few basic
categories of industries have been around for
a long time
◦ Primary
◦ Secondary
◦ Tertiary
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Take from the earth materials that are needed
for food, clothes and shelter
Most basic needs
Include:
Agriculture
Fishing
Forestry
Mining
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God taught Adam how to be a gardener
2 main branches of Agriculture
◦ Farming
◦ Animal Husbandry
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Subsistence Farmers
Cash crops
Commercial Farmers
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Difficulties:
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◦ Drought, disease, Insects, extreme weather
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Nomadic Herding (subsistence)
◦ Many became raiders, very skilled horsemen
 Huns (Central Asia)
 Sioux (North America)
 Masai (East Africa)
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Ranching (Commercial)
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Seafood is the world’s second largest export
commodity
Demand > Supply
Not just fish… Seaweed
Used for food, fertilizer, cosmetics, fuels, animal food additives
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2 Methods
◦ Capture –gathered in the wild
◦ Aquaculture- cultivation/farming in a
controlled environment
Which country do you think
produces the most fish?
China
Which country do you think
consumes the most fish?
Japan
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How important is this industry to you?
Provides wood for homes, furniture, paper
Fruit, nuts
Leaves help make: furniture polish, car
wax, crayons, lipstick, medicines, perfumes
Branches help make: chemicals, plastics,
paper products
Bark helps make: mulch, dyes, shoe polish
Trunks help make: furniture, musical
instruments, baseball bats, charcoal
Sap helps make: adhesives, ice cream, hair
spray, soaps, cough syrup, shampoo
Stumps help make: turpentine, laundry
detergent, sports drinks
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Has surpassed the others in importance
3 main resources:
◦ Metals
◦ Non metal minerals
◦ Fossil fuels
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Metals
◦ Precious metals (gold, silver, platinum)
◦ Common metals (copper, lead, iron, aluminum)
◦ Alloys (combination of metals, Steel is most
important-Iron and coal)
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Non Metal Minerals
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Limestone
Sulfur
Clay, sand, granite, marble, slate
Uranium (used in first atomic bomb)
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Fossil Fuels
◦ Coal, petroleum, natural gas
◦ Technically not minerals, but the remains of living
things
◦ Dramatically changed our way of life
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Take raw materials and change them to a
useful form
2 main types:
◦ Construction
◦ Manufacturing
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Construction
◦ Variety of materials through the years
◦ Cain built the first city
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Manufacturing
◦ Handmade to big business
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Industrial Revolution- 1750-1850
Key technological discovery: electricity
Information Age
◦ Robotics and computers
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Subdivided into 2 types:
◦ Nondurable manufacturing product lasts less than a year
 (food, chemicals, fossil fuels, paper)
◦ Durable manufacturing
 last more than a year
 (furniture, machines, lumber, stone, clay, glass and
metals)
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The more developed a country is, the more
tertiary industries it will have
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80% of American workers
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Tertiary- Also called Service Industries
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5 Categories
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Infrastructure
Trade
Finance
General Services
Government
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Basic energy and equipment needs of all
industries
3 types
◦ Utilities
◦ Transportation
◦ Communication
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Selling the products from primary and
secondary industries
Wholesale businesses
Retail businesses
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Make money available to help start new
companies and fuel growth
◦ Bankers, insurance companies, real estate agents
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Support services, help keep things and
people running, healthy and happy
◦ Maids, mechanics, teachers, nurses, zookeepers,
engineers, lawyers, computer programmers, repair
technicians
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Most government employees work for a city
or a state
National Government employees
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Economics– the study of the process by which
people and countries make choices about the
best way to develop and distribute resources,
goods and services
3 main types of Economic systems in the
world:
◦ Capitalism, Socialism, Mixed Economics
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Capital- Money and equipment needed to
build industries
Capitalism- private individuals or
corporations build most industries, risking
their own capital by making investments in
hopes of gaining a profit
Most western countries use this system
Also called Free Market
Entrepreneurs:
◦ What do they do?
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Government owns the major industries and
makes decisions for the welfare of society
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Most extreme form?
Communism
•Assumes that one person knows what is best for
everyone.
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Many of the countries whose socialist
economy fell, adopted a mixed economy
system
Combine elements of capitalism and
socialism
Private citizens can own property and
businesses but the government closely
regulates them
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GDP – Gross Domestic Product
◦ Gross= Total
◦ Domestic=made at home, inside the country
◦ Product= goods and services
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GDP is the monetary value of all the goods
and services produced by all of the primary,
secondary and tertiary industries
◦ Per Capita GDP- the average value of products
produced by each person in the country, shows the
average worker’s productivity
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Development: effective use of raw materials,
labor and capital
Developed countries can : Buy weapons,
influence others
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Also called- Third World, Underdeveloped
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Some big nations are considered developing
◦ China– high GDP because of population, low per
capita GDP, not taken advantage of worker’s skills
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Underdevelopment not due to lack of
resources, usually due to unstable
government
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Best evidence of a countries’ development
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developed countries = many job options
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Underdeveloped countries =few job choices
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economically self-sufficient– not trading or
selling with anyone
◦ Albania
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markets– people and businesses to buy
products
ExportsImportsTariffs- taxes on exports and imports
Embargo- ban on importing or exporting
certain goods with a particular country
Free Trade vs. Fair Trade – pg. 75