![]() ![]() ![]() One major exception is tourism, which is one of the largest components of the tertiary sector. Because much of the service sector revolves around proximity to potential consumers, the tertiary sector largely reinforced the geography that already existed in the United States – it did little to rearrange it. Examples of the tertiary sector include transportation, retail, wholesale, food service, telecommunications, property maintenance, health care, live entertainment, and public services like police and fire departments, social work, and the military. The tertiary sector is the service sector, in which workers provide services to businesses and consumers. How has the rise of employment in the tertiary and quaternary sectors changed the geography of the country? Here, we will examine the geography of the postindustrial era. Those same cities blossomed during the industrial era, when manufacturers found them to be convenient places to accumulate raw materials and components, and to distribute finished products, as in the Steel Belt. As discussed in Chapter 32, American cities evolved along coasts, lakes, rivers, canals, and railroads in order transport and process those raw materials. In the primary sector, mining has to take place where the minerals are fishing has to take place where the fish are timber has to take place where the trees are, and farming is heavily dependent upon the geography of soils and climate. ![]() During the preindustrial phase, the American population was mostly rural, and the country’s geography was highly dependent upon the location of raw materials. In the current postindustrial era, more and more American livelihoods are dependent on the tertiary and quaternary sectors.Įach era has reshaped the geography of the United States. In the industrial era, the American economy was focused on the secondary sector. During the preindustrial era, the American economy revolved around the primary sector. In Chapter 4, we defined the four sectors of the economy: the primary sector (raw materials extraction), the secondary sector (manufacturing), the tertiary sector (services), and quaternary sector (information). ![]()
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