SERVICES
What is primary production?
This sector produces basic goods from natural resources.
What is e-commerce?
The selling of goods and services over the internet.
What are urban centres or cities?
Services tend to concentrate in these areas where population density is high.
What is industry?
This sector transforms natural resources into products.
What is the sharing economy?
A model where consumers offer goods or services to each other through a digital platform.
What is Helsinki?
Finland's capital
What is the service sector?
Commerce, transportation, education, administration, and health care belong to this main economic sector.
What are Airbnb and Uber?
Two global companies that operate using the sharing economy model.
What is an urban region?
An area that includes a large city and the surrounding districts connected to it.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This major transition in the early 19th century sped up urbanisation and increased industrial jobs.
What are digital platform companies?
Companies like Microsoft, Meta, and Google belong to this group of digital service giants.
What is urbanisation?
This trend of population movement increases service availability in cities.
What is the service sector?
In developed countries, this sector now employs three out of four workers.
What is the transport/logistics sector?
Due to the rise of e-commerce, package lockers and courier services are growing in this business sector.
What are metropolitan regions?
European urban regions are divided into three levels; this one is the highest.