Economic Sectors
This sector involves "taking things from the Earth," like mining or farming.
What is the Primary Sector?
Trees and fish are examples of this type of resource because they can grow back.
What is a Renewable Resource?
Most of Canada’s electricity is produced using this "renewable" water-based method.
What is Hydroelectricity?
This Canadian territory was created in 1999 as part of a major Indigenous land claim.
What is Nunavut?
If a company builds a factory near a city to be close to customers, they are choosing based on this.
What is Proximity to Market?
This sector is where raw materials are turned into finished goods in factories.
What is the Secondary Sector?
Fossil fuels are this type of resource because there is a limited supply that will run out.
What is a Non-Renewable Resource
Alberta is famous for this "non-conventional" oil source that looks like black, sandy muck.
What are the Oil Sands (or Tar Sands)?
IN the context of Canada's Indigenous peoples this term refers to land that was never given through treaties
What is unceded?
This physiographic region in Canada is where most of our metallic minerals (gold, copper) are found.
What is the Canadian Shield?
This is the largest sector in Canada, providing services like education and healthcare.
What is the Tertiary Sector?
This type of resource, like wind or running water, must be used where and when it occurs.
What is a Flow Resource?
This province produces the most Nuclear Power in Canada.
What is Ontario?
Individuals or companies that own land, homes farms, or businesses.
What is private ownership?
This mining method involves digging a giant hole in the ground rather than tunnels.
What is Open-Pit Mining?
This "high-tech" sector involves research, development, and high-level IT.
What is the Quaternary Sector?
This forestry method involves cutting down every single tree in a specific area.
What is Clear-cutting?
According to your slides, this is the main reason why oil from the Alberta Oil Sands is called "Non-Conventional" compared to oil found in the East Coast or Middle East.
What is the extraction method?
Indigenous land claims often focus on this—the right to govern themselves and their resources.
What is Self-Government (or Sovereignty)?
This forestry method is more expensive and requires more planning than clear-cutting, but it is preferred for the environment because it only harvests mature trees and leaves the forest canopy intact.
What is Selective Cutting?
This is the specific term for the "ripple effect" described in your slides, where the opening of a mine (Primary) leads to the creation of jobs for teachers, lawyers, and shopkeepers (Tertiary).
What is the Multiplier Effect?
This is the practice of meeting our needs today without ruining the environment for the future.
What is Sustainability?
While Uranium provides a massive amount of energy for Ontario, it is classified as this type of resource because it is a mineral that does not grow back.
What is a Non-Renewable Resource?
True or False: Land claims can involve both land and financial compensation.
What is True
This province is the leading producer of Wheat in Canada due to its flat "Interior Plains" geography.
What is Saskatchewan?