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Junior Cycle Geography: Primary activities and resources

How often Primary activities and resources comes up on the Geography papers, every year it was asked, and questions to try.

CL Asked on 4 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2025. most years

Primary activities and resources, Common Level(8 marks)

Quick ones on Primary activities and resources.

(a)Which of these is a PRIMARY economic activity?
  1. Car assembly
  2. Fishing
  3. Banking
(b)How do EU fishing quotas help fish stocks?
  1. They let boats fish any EU waters freely
  2. They pay trawlers a bonus to catch more fish
  3. They limit how much of each fish is caught
(c)Why is the Golden Vale in Munster ideal for dairy farming?
  1. Rich soils and a mild, moist climate
  2. The ground is frozen for much of the year
  3. Thin soils and steep, rocky slopes
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(a) Fishing

(b) They limit how much of each fish is caught

(c) Rich soils and a mild, moist climate

Your turn: Common Level questions on Primary activities and resources.

Common Level

Asked on 4 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2025. most years

Every paper, year by year

YearWhere it came up
2026Not asked
2025Q1A, Q1B, Q9A
2024Q4C
2023Q5A, Q8C
2022Q5B

Links open the State Examinations Commission’s paper for that year.

More Primary activities and resources questions

Primary activities and resources, 2 marks

Killybegs in Co. Donegal is best known as Ireland's leading?

  1. Oil refinery
  2. Car ferry port
  3. Fishing port
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Fishing port

Killybegs has a deep, sheltered harbour close to rich Atlantic fishing grounds, so it lands more fish than any other Irish port and supports fish-processing plants.

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