Energy
This renewable energy source uses moving water to spin turbines.
What is hydroelectricity?
This sector involves taking raw materials directly from nature.
What is the primary sector?
This Canadian province is best known for vast oil sands mining.
What is Alberta?
Cutting only selected trees—usually older or more valuable ones—is known as this method.
What is selective cutting?
Wheat, canola, and beef cattle come mainly from this broad Canadian region.
What are the prairies?
And they are?
Coal, oil, and natural gas are collectively known as these.
What are fossil fuels?
Scientists, software developers, and data analysts work in this sector.
What is the quaternary sector?
Name one environmental impact of mining in Canada.
What is:
Potential oil spills
Water/air pollution
Destruction of habitats
This forestry method removes groups or strips of trees while leaving others to protect new seedlings.
What is shelterwood cutting?
This Canadian region is famous for growing potatoes.
What is Prince Edward Island?
These gases trap heat in Earth’s atmosphere and contribute to global warming.
What are greenhouse gases?
Name them.
During this phase of the economic cycle, businesses close and unemployment rises.
What is a recession?
This type of mining digs a huge hole in the ground to reach minerals near the surface.
What is open-pit mining?
Forests help fight climate change because trees absorb this gas.
What is carbon dioxide?
Trees, fish, sunlight, and crops are examples of this type of resource.
What s renewable?
This step in energy production involves removing resources from the ground.
What is extraction?
Give one example of a good or service counted in GDP.
What are: Consumer Spending
Business Spending
Government Spending
Exports minus Imports
This type of mining uses tunnels and shafts to reach minerals.
What is underground mining?
Name one negative impact forestry can have on ecosystems.
What is:
soil erosion/degredation
destruction of habitat/wasted land
pollution
These greenhouse gases come from cows and can impact climate change.
What is methane?
This type of energy uses heat from inside the Earth.
What is geothermal?
This measures the total value of goods and services produced in a country in a year. FULL NAME
What is the Gross Domestic Product?
This is the layer of soil and rock that lies above a mineral deposit and must be removed.
What is overburden?
This province contributes the most to Canada's lumber industry (planks, boards, etc.)
What is British Columbia?
Farmers can protect soil health by planting different crops each year, a practice known as this.
What is crop rotation?