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Junior Cycle Geography: Secondary activities

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

CL Asked on 3 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2025. most years

Secondary activities, Common Level(7 marks)

Quick ones on Secondary activities.

(a)A factory's raw materials, workers and energy are its?
  1. Outputs
  2. Inputs
  3. Processes
(b)An industry free to locate almost anywhere, not tied to raw materials, is?
  1. Primary
  2. Heavy
  3. Footloose
(c)Why do many factories locate near a motorway junction?
  1. Quick transport of inputs and outputs
  2. Land there is always free to build on
  3. To be far away from any workers
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(a) Inputs

(b) Footloose

(c) Quick transport of inputs and outputs

Your turn: Common Level questions on Secondary activities.

Common Level

Asked on 3 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2025. most years

Every paper, year by year

YearWhere it came up
2026Not asked
2025Q9A
2024Q8B
2023Not asked
2022Q2A, Q2B

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

More Secondary activities questions

Secondary activities, 2 marks

In a cheese factory, pasteurising the milk is one of the?

  1. Inputs
  2. Outputs
  3. Processes
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Processes

Processes are the steps inside the factory: pasteurising, adding cultures, pressing and ripening. Milk is an input; cheese and whey are outputs.

Secondary activities, 2 marks

Which is a SECONDARY economic activity?

  1. Selling chairs in a shop
  2. Making furniture from timber
  3. Felling trees in a state forest
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Making furniture from timber

Secondary activities process raw materials into products. Felling trees is primary (forestry) and selling furniture is tertiary (a service). One timber chain links all three.

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