RESOURCES & ENVIRONMENT
What are the four categories of resources?
Non renewable, renewable, human/other, flow
What are the worlds largest water stores?
Oceans
What are the three types of mining?
Strip, Open Pit, Underground
What are the four economic sectors?
Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, Quaternary
What are two reasons people migrate?
Push and Pull Factors
What are the 3Rs?
Reuse, Reduce, Recycle
What is the largest freshwater store?
What is Ore?
Any mineral that is profitable to mine
What are examples of jobs in the primary sector?
Farmers, miners, fishers
What DTM stage has rapid population growth?
Stage 2
What are the 4 main forestry types?
Clear cutting, Shelterwood, Selective cutting, Sustainable forestry
What is groundwater?
Water stored underground in soil and rock
What is the cheapest type of mining?
Strip mining
What is the multiplier effect?
One job creates more jobs in a community
What are types of immigration to Canada?
Skilled Worker, Refugee, Family, Start-Up Visa, etc.
Forestry Stewardship Council and Marine Stewardship Council
What is Aquaculture?
Farming fish in controlled environments
What is fracking?
Drilling deep into the earth and blasting a high pressure mixture of water, sand, and chemicals into the rock to create cracks and release the fossil fuels.
Name 3 business location factors
Transportation, labour, market access
What type of immigrant is he: A person comes to Canada with a job offer to work as a plumber.
Skilled Trades Class
What is sustained yield management?
Using resources at the same rate that they regenerate
What is the aridity index formula?
Precipitation / Evaporation
What is the R/P ratio?
Reserves รท production
What is a basic job?
Brings money INTO the community
What type of person is she: A person applies to Canada after working here for 2 years as a student worker.
Canadian Experience Class