2. THE PRIMARY SECTOR
• The primary sector in Spain
employs four per cent of the
people.
• Primary sector: products of
nature are obtained:
• Agriculture.
• Livestock.
• Fishing.
• Logging.
• Mining.
3. NONRENEWABLE ENERGY
SOURCES
• Coal has been replaced by oil,
some are even open mines in
Asturias and Castilla-León.
• Oil, which is the most used.
• Natural gas is exported from
Algeria.
• Uranium, used in nuclear power
plants, and only extracted in
Salamanca.
4. SECONDARY SECTOR
• In the secondary
sector is
responsable for
transforming the
natural products
obtained in primary
sector or semi-
processed products
in factories.
• People who are
engaged in this
sector are twenty –
eight per cent of
the people in the
working population.
• MAIN ACTIVITIES
• Energy production:
hydraulic, thermal, nuclear,
wind, solar panels.
• The consumer indutries:
food industries textile,
automobilie, metallurgy (
machines, appliances).
• Construction: Construct
building, roads, airports,
dams.
5. TERTIARY SECTOR
• The tertiary sector offers servicies to the
population.
• In Spain, occupies the sixty-eight per cent of
the population.
• Its activities are:
• Transport.
• Trade.
• Education.
• Health.
• Tourism.
• Banking.
• Administration.
