Industries
This industry includes farming, fishing, forestry, and mining.
What is the primary industry?
GDP stands for?
What is Gross Domestic Product?
These are things found in nature that people use to meet their needs.
What are natural resources?
A nurse working in a hospital providing patient care belongs to this industry.
What is the tertiary (service) industry?
GDP is used to measure the overall strength of this.
What is a country’s economy?
Canada is one of the world’s largest producers of this renewable resource used to make paper and furniture.
What is forest (timber)?
A software developer designing apps or programs works in this industry.
What is the quaternary industry?
If GDP increases, this usually happens in the country.
What is economic growth?
This natural resource is found in Alberta and is used to make gasoline and plastic.
What is oil (petroleum)?
A fishing boat captain catching and selling seafood works in this industry.
What is primary industry?
GDP is measured over this amount of time.
What is one year?
This renewable resource is used to produce electricity in dams, especially in Quebec and British Columbia.
What is hydroelectric power?
A scientist works for a company developing a new type of battery that stores more energy and charges faster. Their job involves testing ideas, running experiments, and creating new knowledge that has never existed before.
What is the quaternary industry?
GDP measures production in this area.
What is within a country?
Canada exports large amounts of this non-renewable resource, which is mined from the ground and used in many industries, including construction and technology manufacturing.
What are minerals?