3º ESO UNIT 10 THE TERTIARY SECTOR

Unit 10. The tertiary sector

 

1.               Explain the tertiary sector.

2.               Explain the ‘tertiarization’ of economies in developed countries. Long answer.

3.               Who are services providers?

4.               What are the differences between traditional and advanced services?

5.               Mention the factors of dominance of the service sector in developed countries.

6.               Explain the tertiarization of industries.

7.               Why have services of developed countries been outsourced?

8.               What percentage of European jobs could be outsourced in the future?

9.               What are the Indian advantages to receive those jobs?

10.            What is the transport?

11.            Explain that is infrastructure.

12.            What are the economic functions of transport?

13.            What is the transport network? What elements form it?

14.            Name the types of transport networks.

15.            Explain the transport networks in developed countries.

16.            Explain the transport networks in less developed countries.

17.            Name the transport systems.

18.            What are the main disadvantages of road transport?

19.            Explain the rail transport.

20.            Look at the map. What towns must you cross in a rail trip from Chicago to El Paso? Name them.

21.            Look at the map. What part of United States has more roads?

22.            Look at the map. Name the main ports in Europe in alphabetical order.

23.            Look at the map. What continent has more main ports?

24.            Look at the map. What is the ocean with more commercial shipping routes?

25.            Why is the water transport less developed in Spain than in other European countries?

26.            Why are the airports very large and they occupy so much space?

27.            Why are the airports transport nodes?

28.            Where are the main air transport nodes located? Why?

29.            What European countries have more than 500 airports?

30.            What country in the world has the most airports?

31.            What is the first city in the world by total movements of freight and passengers?

32.            What is the first city in Europe by total movements of freight and passengers?

33.            What is attracted by the airports?

34.            What is trade?

35.            What are the main elements of trade?

36.            Explain domestic trade.

37.            Who is a wholesaler?

38.            Who is a retailer?

39.            What is foreign trade?

40.            What are imports?

41.            What are exports?

42.            What is the balance of trade?

43.            When is the balance of trade positive?

44.            When is the balance of trade negative?

45.            What are the main exports of developed countries?

46.            What are the main exports of less developed countries?

47.            Look at map 8. What are the main buyers of EU products? Think it.

48.            What is tourism?

49.            How was tourism before the mid-twentieth century?

50.            What are the three phases in development of contemporary tourism?

51.            What is the most common type of tourism?

52.            What are the reasons for the rapid growth of tourism in developed countries? Explain it.

53.            Mention the positive effects of tourism.

54.            Mention the negative effects of tourism.

55.            How are the jobs in the tourist sector?

56.            What are the main environmental impacts of tourism?

57.            Look at the map about world tourism. How many people visit China?

58.            Look at the map about world tourism. How many people visit Italy?

59.            Look at the map about world tourism. How many people visit France?

60.            Look at the map about world tourism. How many people visit Spain?

61.            Look at the map about world tourism. How many people visit United States?