Unit 1: Intro, Mapping and Canada
Number of timezones in Canada
What is six timezones?
The population density of Canada
What is four people per square kilometre?
The four categories of resources
What are renewable, non-renewable, flow, and other?
The definition of sustainability
What is the process of using non-renewable resources at a resonable amount?
He speaks for the trees
What is the Lorax?
The age of the earth
What is 3.8 Billion years old?
The expected population of the world by 2050
What is 9.8 billion?
The four things needed for farming
What are climate, soil, biology, and topography (land)?
The highest type of energy production in Canada equaling 81%
What is oil/natural gas?
The number of earths it would take to sustain the human population if we continue to use resources at our current rate.
What is 1.75 earths?
Scientists use this process to determine how old a living thing is based on the amount of carbon inside it
What is Carbon Dating?
The definition of a poverty trap
What is when someone is so poor, the costs of trying to get out of being poor are too great and cause them to become even poorer?
The three types of mining
The main electricity production source in Ontario
What is nuclear energy?
The four layers of the earth
What are the crust, mantle, inner core, and outer core?
LOWERN stands for this
What are city development, job opportunities, a boosted economy, and modernized amenities?
The three types of ways to cut trees
What are clear-cutting, shelterwood, and selective cutting?
The unit of measurement for an ecological footprint
What is gha?
The most recent name of a supercontinent
What is Pangaea?
The types of plate movements
What is lateral sliding, divergent sliding, subduction, and coliding?
The definition of gentrification
What is the process in which a wealthy person buys out lower-income areas and turns them into higher-income areas, forcing out the lifelong residents?
The three types of fish
What are shellfish, groundfish, and pelagic fish?
The names of all seven energy production sources in Canada
What are oil/natural gas, coal, hydro, nuclear, tidal, and biomass/geothermal?
The three main types of rock
What are Igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks?