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100

A system of electrical power lines that connects large generating stations to buildings where people use electricity.

What is a power grid?

100

The constant circulation of the earth's water.

What is the water cycle?

100

Wood produced by coniferous (needle-leaved) trees.

What is softwood?

100

These helped the eventual creation of oil and gas by falling to the sea floor.

What are marine animals and plants?

100

Naturally occurring, pure, non-living substance found in the rocks of earth.

What is a mineral?

200

Metallic, fossil fuels, industrial

What are different types of minerals?

200

An area drained by a river and its tributaries.

What is a drainage basin?

200

Use of a renewable resource at a rate that allows the resource to renew itself.

What is sustained yield management?

200

Natural gas, coal, hydro and nuclear 

What are conventional energy sources?

200

metallic minerals, fossil fuels, industrial minerals

What are the groups that Canada's minerals are divided into?

300

Any form of precipitation that contains high levels of nitric and sulfuric acids.

What is acid rain?

300

An area of higher land that seperates drainage basins.

What is a watershed?

300

Trees that can be harvested for a profit.

What is a commercial forest?

300

Dry hole, plug well, oil found

What are results that can occur when drilling an oil well?

300

Potash

What mineral has the Saskatchewan Government nationalized?

400

Hydro electric power

What is Manitoba's main source of electricity?

400

Hudson Bay

What drainage basin are we in?

400

Coniferous, Deciduous, Mixed

What are the three types of forests that we have in Canada?

400

Crude oil and oil sands

What are the two types of oil in Canada?
400

Deposits that are economical to mine.

What is a mineral reserve?

500

This turns turbines which causes a generator to turn and produce thermal-electricity.

What is steam?

500

Physical, Biological, Chemical

What are the 3 levels of water pollution?

500

Clear cutting, shelterwood, selective

What are the 3 types of logging done in Canada?

500

An oil like substance found around individual sand particles.

What is bitumen?

500

Strip, open pit, underground

What are different types of mining done in Canada?