General/misc.
Natural Resources
Natural Resources
True or false: Natural resources exist naturally in the environment without human action/intervention.
What is True
This renewable energy source generates electricity by using water to spin turbines.
What is hydro-electricity?
These are naturally occurring, pure, non-living substances found in the rocks of the Earth.
What are minerals?
The price of a product decreases when the supply ________
What is increases?
The oil in sands is called..
What is bitumen?
Where in Canada is most oil and gas found?
Where is Alberta?
This type of energy is created by the radioactive breakdown of uranium atoms.
What is nuclear energy?
The type of minerals that can be burned to produce energy.
What are fossil fuels?
The price of a product _______ when demand goes up.
What is increases
a deceptive marketing tactic that misleads the public into believing that a company is more environmentally friendly than it actually is.
What is greenwashing?
What is the most important renewable energy source in Canada?
What is moving water/Hydroelectricity?
What type of power use a primary heat source, like burning fossil fuels, to create steam that rotates a turbine and generates electricity
What is thermal electricity?
This type of mineral is refined to produce metals like gold, silver, and copper.
What are metallic minerals?
What two resources were used during class to demonstrate the role of supply and demand and resource value?
What are gravel and diamonds
What kind of ads did we compare the oil sands ad to?
What are smoking ads?
type of kinetic energy caused by moving electric charges
What is electrical energy
Burning coal releases what kind of gas?
Carbon Dioxide (co2)
Sand, asbestos, and potash are examples of this type of mineral.
What are industrial minerals?
Name a physical geography factor that affects natural resource prices
what is natural disasters/ weather?
Bacterial actions, _______ and pressure work to convert plant and animal matter into oil and gas.
the energy of motion, or the energy of an object that moves.
what is mechanical energy
3 reasons why we use lots of energy in Canada
Our cold climate requires a lot of heating
We have lots of industry that requires energy
Energy is relatively cheap here, so we waste it!
term used in mining to describe the process of restoring mined land to its original state.
what is reclamation
Name TWO human geography factors that can affect the prices of natural resources
What is politics, economic factors or technology advances?
What is the name of the pipeline from the Oil Sands Documentary?
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