Resource Rundown
These are raw materials that come from the environment and are extracted or used by humans.
What are Natural Resources?
This sector involves the "extraction" or harvesting of raw materials directly from the Earth.
What is the Primary Sector?
These are the three "Pillars of Sustainability" that must be balanced to ensure a stable system.
What are Environmental, Social, and Economic?
The majority of Canada's most productive agricultural land is concentrated in this region.
What are the Prairies/Interior Plains (Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta)
This concept describes the increase in a product's worth due to the labour, skills, and technology used to turn a raw material into a finished product.
What is Value-Added?
This type of resource, like trees or fish, can be replaced or replenished naturally within 100 years or less.
What is a Renewable Resource?
This "knowledge-based" sector focuses on research, development, and information technology.
What is the Quaternary Sector?
This pillar ensures that jobs can be maintained over time and avoids the "boom-bust" cycles often seen in mining towns.
What is the Economic Pillar?
If you are looking for massive deposits of metallic minerals like copper and nickel, you would head to this rocky Canadian region.
What is the Canadian Shield?
This is one of the four main reasons Canada has shifted away from resource extraction toward service jobs (HINT: it starts with "A").
What is Automation?
Solar energy, wind, and moving water are categorized as this type of resource because they are replaced by natural actions.
What is a Flow Resource?
If you are taking crude oil and refining it into gasoline, you are working in this sector.
What is the Secondary Sector?
This abbreviation stands for the knowledge accumulated over generations by Indigenous communities regarding local ecosystems.
What is TEK (Traditional Ecological Knowledge)?
These three factors—climate, soil composition, and topography—primarily influence the location of this specific industry.
What is Agriculture?
Name a "Value-Added" pair: The primary resource is a tree; this is a secondary processed product.
What is Paper (or Lumber/Furniture)?
Although it seems like it’s everywhere, this resource is considered non-renewable because it can take thousands of years to build up a single centimetre of it.
What is Soil?
Teachers, nurses, and retail workers all belong to this sector, which provides services rather than goods.
What is the Tertiary Sector?
This is the core definition of sustainability: Meeting the needs of the present without doing this to the needs of future generations.
What is compromising them?
This province is the primary location for oil sands extraction in Canada.
What is Alberta?
This process involves the worldwide integration of economies and is a reason why many manufacturing jobs have moved overseas. (HINT: It starts with 'G').
What is Globalization?
This term refers to the maximum rate at which we can use a renewable resource without reducing its future supply.
What is Sustainable Yield?
Over 70% of Canadian jobs are now found in these two sectors combined.
What are the Tertiary and Quaternary sectors?
This pillar focuses on protecting ecosystems, maintaining biodiversity, and preventing overexploitation.
What is the Environmental Pillar?
This province is the leading producer of Maple Sap/Syrup in Canada.
What is Quebec?
In the 1920s, Canada had this type of economy, where most jobs were in farming, forestry, and mining. (HINT: A ______-Based Economy).
What is a Resource-Based Economy?