Primary Sector
What is California's major economic industry?
Agriculture
What is California's top manufacturing export?
The state's largest manufacturing export category is computer and electronic products
List at least three tourist hotspots in California.
Most popular hotspots include Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Disneyland, Napa Valley, Pebble Beach, Lake Tahoe, San Francisco, Yosemite, Venice Beach, and more.
What State is second to California in agriculture?
Iowa
What is the number one port in the United States?
Port of Los Angeles
List 3 tech companies that started in Silicon Valley
Atari, Apple, Oracle, eBay, Yahoo, Paypal, and Google started here
What does a primary sector involve?
This sector involves the use of natural resources and consumed either directly or used in the industry.
What does a secondary sector involve?
Involves manufacturing and processing raw materials into finished products.
What is a tertiary sector comprised of?
This is the sector that is comprised of services, such as entertainment, tourism, retailers, and financial institutions.
What percentage of the land in California is used for Agriculture?
40%
List examples of secondary sector.
Examples are automobile production, textiles, ship building, and energy utilities.
What are two reasons California became a movie industry hotspot.
weather and non union labor.
List the top 5 most valued agricultural products produced by California.
Dairy Products, Grapes, Cattle and Calves, Lettuce, Almonds
25% of state manufacturing jobs are found in what four subsectors?
How did silicon valley get its name?
Shockley left Bell and founded his own company which made transistors out of silicon and not germanium.
A curious journalist named Don Hoefler wrote a three-part report about the semiconductor industry in 1971, titled Silicon Valley USA. Obviously, the name caught on.