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A system of electrical power lines that connects large generating stations to buildings where people use electricity.
What is a power grid?
The constant circulation of the earth's water.
What is the water cycle?
Wood produced by coniferous (needle-leaved) trees.
What is softwood?
These helped the eventual creation of oil and gas by falling to the sea floor.
What are marine animals and plants?
Naturally occurring, pure, non-living substance found in the rocks of earth.
What is a mineral?
Metallic, fossil fuels, industrial
What are different types of minerals?
An area drained by a river and its tributaries.
What is a drainage basin?
Use of a renewable resource at a rate that allows the resource to renew itself.
What is sustained yield management?
Natural gas, coal, hydro and nuclear
What are conventional energy sources?
metallic minerals, fossil fuels, industrial minerals
What are the groups that Canada's minerals are divided into?
Any form of precipitation that contains high levels of nitric and sulfuric acids.
What is acid rain?
An area of higher land that seperates drainage basins.
What is a watershed?
Trees that can be harvested for a profit.
What is a commercial forest?
Dry hole, plug well, oil found
What are results that can occur when drilling an oil well?
Potash
What mineral has the Saskatchewan Government nationalized?
Hydro electric power
What is Manitoba's main source of electricity?
Hudson Bay
What drainage basin are we in?
Coniferous, Deciduous, Mixed
What are the three types of forests that we have in Canada?
Crude oil and oil sands
Deposits that are economical to mine.
What is a mineral reserve?
This turns turbines which causes a generator to turn and produce thermal-electricity.
What is steam?
Physical, Biological, Chemical
What are the 3 levels of water pollution?
Clear cutting, shelterwood, selective
What are the 3 types of logging done in Canada?
An oil like substance found around individual sand particles.
What is bitumen?
Strip, open pit, underground
What are different types of mining done in Canada?