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Types of Geo
Industry
Agriculture
Definitions
General
100
The geographic foundation that covers more than half of Canada.
What is the Canadian Shield?
100
Take raw materials from the environment and are logically located in parts of Canada where resources are found.
What is primary industry?
100
GMO
What is genetically modified organisms?
100
Day to day characteristics of atmospheric conditions.
What is weather?
100
As you move up in elevation, temperature ...
What is decreases?
200
The bedrock that make up the Canadian Lowlands were laid down from seas that existed at various times millions of years ago. True or False?
What is true?
200
Stores, newspapers, restaurants, government are all examples of ...
What is tertiary industry?
200
Perfect farming conditions exist in most of the world. True or false?
What is false?
200
Long term weather forecasting.
What is climate?
200
Involves digging large open holes in the ground devastating the surrounding area.
What is open pit mining?
300
Areas that are far from bodies of water and experience lots of temperature variation.
What is Continental climate environments.
300
Processing of raw materials.
What is secondary industry?
300
A small amount of land with the use of large amounts of labour, machinery and $$. Example; fruit farms.
What is Intensive farming/agriculture?
300
Farmers grow crops and raise livestock to meet the immediate needs of their families.
What is subsistence farming?
300
Located close to markets and/or with large enough trees that can be harvested (cut down) for profit.
What is a commercial forest?
400
Canadian land area that is mostly covered with permafrost or permanently frozen land.
What is tundra?
400
Clear cutting forest resources extremely expensive and therefore, rarely done by loggers to remove trees. True or False?
What is false?
400
Specializing in producing only a few crops on a large farm, produce is sold in local and world markets.
What is a cash-crop farmer?
400
Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
What is sustainability?
400
Generally, as you move away from the equator the temperature ...
What is decreases.
500
Appalachians, Innuitians, Western Cordillera
What is the North American Highlands?
500
Three times as many Canadians work in tertiary and quaternary industries than in Primary and Secondary industries. True or False?
What is true?
500
Agriculture depends on the interaction of a number of natural systems
What is climate, soil, topography, and biology.
500
A feature of the natural environment that is of value in serving the needs of humans.
What is a natural resource?
500
An extreme form of hunger where the body wastes away is
What is starvation?