The Big Picture
Agriculture
Fisheries
Mining
Foresty & Water
100
These are the base materials of our society.
Natural Resources
100
Only this percentage of Canada's land is arable.
What is 7%
100
This is the year that the Atlantic Cod fishery collapsed.
What is 1992.
100
This is a high-tech device used to detect ore bodies that are carried by helicopters over areas of land.
What is a magnetometer?
100
Land capable of producing marketable products.
What is commercial forest?
200
This has made the development of Canada's natural resoures possible.
Interconnection between Canada and other countries.
200
This has allowed crops to be grown in different ways, at faster speeds, and in different locations.
What is technology.
200
This is another name for fish farming.
What is aquaculture.
200
People who study rocks.
What are geologists?
200
Sustainable management of small areas of local forest that involves input from all stakeholders who work together as a team.
What is a Model Forest?
300
These are the three types of natural resources.
What are renewable, non-renewable, and flow.
300
These are the most important natural factors farmers consider when determining the right crop and the best place to grow it?
What are climate, landforms, and soil conditions.
300
This is when nets accidentally catch small fish and other marine animals.
What is Bycatch.
300
This is a town that grows around a mine which provides a place for workers to live and provides services for their families (grocery stores, banks, schools, etc.).
What is mining town?
300
A set of moral principals or beliefs about is right or wrong when considering the use of water.
What are Water Ethics?
400
This is an indicator of a country's worth.
What is Gross National Product.
400
This is how prices on crops are determined.
What is based on supply and demand on world markets.
400
This is believed to be the best way to rebuild fish stocks.
What is Time?
400
This country is the world leaders in the production of gold, diamonds, aluminum, zinc, platinum, salt, and uranium.
What is Canada?
400
A place where the water table is at ground level. (eg: bog, swamp)
What are Wetlands?
500
These are the major positive and negative aspects of developing Canada's natural resources.
What are economic development and environmental damage.
500
This term refers to all the processes and steps involved from planting crops to the grocery store to your table.
What is the agribusiness industry.
500
These are two ways in which we can aim to achieve a sustainable fishing industry.
What are choose fish species that have stocks that are in good shape, choose fish that are caught using non-destructive fishing methods, and choose fish that is caught by using methods that have low levels of bycatch.
500
Finely ground-up rock left over after the mineral has been extracted.
What are tailings?
500
The rerouting of water from one drainage basin to another.
What is Water Diversion?
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