Industries in Canada
An industry that is responsible for extracting raw materials from the earth
What is the Primary Industry?
A method where all the trees in a given area are cut down for lumber
What is clear cutting?
Using high temperatures to melt the ore and extract the mineral
What is Smelting?
Chemical given to animals to increase their size
What is growth hormone?
Renewable resource that used rays from the sun to generate electricity?
Bank, Restaurant, Clothing store
What are examples of tertiary industries?
A forest with the highest tree diversity (with both coniferous/ deciduous) and is home to over half of Canada’s endangered animals
What is the Mixed forest?
minerals that have many different uses and they are usually used to make tools/ parts of buildings
What are industrial Minerals?
An environmentally responsible source of food and commercial products that is done via breeding, raising, and harvesting fish, shellfish, and aquatic plants
What is Aquaculture?
Natural resources that cannot be replenished at a rate comparable to their consumption, meaning they are finite and will eventually run out.
What are non-renewable resources?
Education, programming, consultations
What are examples of quaternary industries?
Acid rain, forest fires, pests
What are examples of threats to forests?
Mining method that using drilling and explosives a pit is created from the ground where ore (metal mixed with rock) can be harvested
What is open pit mining?
Climate
Soil
Topography
Biology
What are the factors that make farming successful?
Heat energy contained within the Earth's interior, which can be harnessed for various uses like heating, cooling, and electricity generation
what is geothermal energy?
this is the largest industry in all of Canada
What is Banking (tertiary) industry?
In 2003 this insect caused a lot of disease to trees resulting in the cutting and burning of these trees by the government
What is the Asian Longhorn Beetle?
minerals that release a lot of energy when they burn
What are fossil fuels
Type of farm that uses only natural substances to grow their food, Does Not produce as much as conventional farms and the food is more natural
What is organic farming?
Pollution, scarcity, droughts
What are some reasons water is not renewable?
Process raw materials to produce such supplies as iron and steel, pulp and paper, and petroleum products
What is primary manufacturing?
The three major products from trees
What are lumber, pulp and paper?
The largest metallic mineral mine in Canada is located here
What is British Columbia?
It is a practice where farmers prepare the land to plant food
Machinery would be used to loosen up soil
What is tilling?
A renewable energy source derived from organic materials, primarily plant and animal matter
What is Biomass energy?