Types of Resources
This type of resource is found in rocks and often extracted through mining.
What are minerals?
This fuel replaced wood in the 1800s and is still used to power electricity plants.
What is coal?
This method is used for minerals close to the surface and requires the land to be replanted afterward.
What is strip mining?
This province is known for its oil sands.
What is Alberta?
These three modes of transportation are powered mostly by fossil fuels.
What are cars, buses, and planes?
These are made of metallic elements such as gold, silver, and copper.
What are metallic minerals?
This “black gold” is found in Alberta’s oil sands and off the coast of Newfoundland.
What is crude oil (or petroleum)?
This mining method involves digging a huge open hole in the ground.
What is open pit mining?
This city in Ontario is known for its oil refineries.
What is Sarnia?
Fossil fuels power our electricity, allow us to cook food, and do this to our water.
What is heat our water?
These non-metallic resources include gravel, sand, and diamonds.
What are industrial minerals (or non-metallic minerals)?
This clean-burning fuel is often found where oil is present and is used in electrical generating stations.
What is natural gas?
This mining method is used when mineral deposits are deep underground and involves tunnels and elevators.
What is underground mining?
This industry contributed about $2 trillion to Canada’s GDP in 2020.
What is mining?
Energy resources that are hard or expensive to extract are called this.
What are unconventional oil and gas?
This mineral, rich in potassium and used as fertilizer, is found in Saskatchewan.
What is potash?
Canada has the second-largest reserves of this resource in the world after Saudi Arabia.
What is oil (or petroleum)?
In 2020, there were about this many mines in Canada.
What is 1001 mines?
This is a negative environmental impact of strip mining.
What is land destruction (or land must be restored/replanted)?
Two alternative or renewable energy sources.
What are biofuels and the Sun?