NATURAL RESOURCES & ECONOMIC SECTORS
What is a Natural Resource?
Something that is not man made.
What is agriculture?
Farming of crops and raising of animals for human consumption?
Lumber, Pulp and Paper are a part of what economic sector?
Secondary/manufacturing
What are the two types of trees? Name a difference between them.
Coniferous (needles) and Deciduous (Leaves)
Canada's most valuable mineral mined is ____
Gold
How many Economic Sectors are there?
4
What country is the largest importer of Apples?
Germany
What animal do we hundreds of millions of a day for food?
Fish
What province has the most sawmills?
British Columbia
What natural resource is the Wet'suwet'en conflict about?
Natural Gas
Primary
Give one purpose (pro or con) of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO's).
- Make products look better and taste better
- longer shelf life of products
- animals grow faster and bigger for more meat
What causes acid rain?
Carbon emissions go into the clouds and get rained back down in the form of acid rain.
What forest region has the worst trees?
Taiga
What is one way we can be more sustainable in our day-to-day lives?
What are Quarternary Industries? (Can be a definition or example)
Involves the processing of ideas. Ex: programmers, professors...etc.
What are the 4 factors needed for good farmland?
Climate, soil, topography, biology
Give one characteristic/fact of our forest region mentioned in class.
Mixed Forest Region
- longer growing season and more precipitation than the Boreal region
- a mix of sawmills, pulp and paper mills
- most of our maple syrup comes from here
- Spruce, maple, fir, white pine
Why do we do controlled burns?
To mimic a natural process, to clear dead brush.
Name the 3 countries with the highest total ecological footprints.
USA, China, India
40% of the world's sugar comes from _____
Brazil
Over time the number of farms goes down, the size goes up, but fewer people are employed. Give one reason why this is.
- Canada started with many family farms but got bought out or could not compete with big companies.
- technology led to fewer workers being needed.
Give at least 2 characteristics of extensive farming.
- Low population dense areas
- markets are further
- less perishable crops
- inexpensive land
- less pressure to be efficent
Clear-cutting clears a whole area.
Shelterwood logging only clear-cuts parts of an area.
selective cutting only cuts the best trees.
Climate and topography, population, transportation