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THE SECONDARY SECTOR - Coggle Diagram
THE SECONDARY SECTOR
THE SECONDARY SECTOR ACROSS THE WORLD
Main activities
Industry
Transformed over last decades
Uses technology and robots
To perform operations on the assembly line
Great industrialised countries
Ones with advanced economies and technology
(USA, Japan, EU, Russia, China and India)
With ↑ polluting iron & steel or the paper industry
Make process of RELOCATION
Move from developed countries
With environmental laws and high labour costs
To countries with
More liveral laws and longer wages
Construction
THE SECONDARY SECTOR IN SPAIN
Activities related to
Industry & energy
For industrial machines
Like construction (employs about 19% of the workforce)
The production of energy
Two groups
Renewable energies
(solar, hydraulic or wind power...)
Largest global producers of wind power
Reservoirs to generate hydroelectric energy
Less polluting
Will have to replace n.r. energies
Not yet possible due to the high costs
Non-renewable energies
Come from
Burning fossil fuels
(coal, oil, natural gas)
Spain doesn't produce oil or gas
They import them
Splitting uranium atoms
(nuclear)
Spain has seven nuclear power plants
Industrial activity
Uses 11.2% of the Spanish workforce
Main areas
Madrid and Barcelona (provinces)
Valencia region
Basque Country
other areas of Andalucía (Gibraltar)
Galicia (Vigo)
Zaragoza and Asturias
Construction
Building/making changes to houses and transport infrastructure
Sector grew
Beginning of the 21st century
With the
Building of large housing developments in the big cities
Development of tourist areas along the coast
A sector that
Involves production and construction
Requires
Large amount of energy
Extracted from natural resources
Converts raw materias
Into good and services
Includes construction
Converts land and materials into
(houses, bridges and hospitals...)
