Energy Production in Canada
This type of energy plant has the cheapest initial cost to build.
What are Oil/Natural Gas plants?
There are the four types of soil.
What is Silt, Sand, Clay and Loam?
The Earth is comprised of this many layers.
What is four?
This many Extinction-Level Events have happened.
What is five?
We use resources this much faster than the Earth can replenish them.
What is 1.7x?
This source of energy has the worst effects on our environment and our health.
What is Coal?
These are the three groups of primary industries.
What are farming/fishing, mining, and forestry?
This layer of Earth rotates the slowest.
The Mantle.
Glaciers have helped to shape our landscape by doing these things.
What is
These rocks were displaced, typically by glaciers moving them between landscapes.
What are erratics?
These renewable energy sources are unable to provide a consistent supply of energy.
What is wind and solar power?
The 3 R's in order from least to most effective.
What is recycling, reusing, and reducing?
These liquid metals are found in the outer and inner cores.
What are iron and nickel?
This is the term used to refer to climate change cause by human activity.
What is Anthroprogenic Climate Change?
These three crops perform these roles in the three sister garden.
Corn - Lets beans grow upwards
Squash - Gets rid of weeds
Beans - Provide nitrogen for crops
These renewable forms of energy are held back by only being able to be implemented in certain areas.
What is hydro and tidal power?
These are the types of resources that we get from mining.
What are metallic materials, fossil fuels and industrial minerals?
How do we know that the continents were once one giant landmass?
One of the following:
Fit like puzzle pieces, similar landscape between parts that were once connected.
85% of marine species disappeared in this extinction level event when a giant landmass moved to the south pole and cooled.
What is the End-Ordovician?
Nunavut occupies these three time zones.
What are Mountain, Central and Eastern time zones?
This source of energy requires the least maintenance.
What is Wind/Solar?
This term refers to an excess of minerals getting into a body of water, which can be caused by mining.
What is Eutrophication?
This type of movement can create lateral faults, such as the San Andreas Fault.
What is lateral sliding?
The five Extinction-Level-Events in chronological order.
What are the End-Ordovician, Late Devonion, End-Permian, End-Triassic, and End-Cretaceous
This US state gets 75% of their water needs from groundwater.
What is Minnesota?