Natural Resources Intro
A product or service produced in one country for sale in another country
What is an export?
A naturally occurring, pure, non-living substance found in the rocks of the Earth
What is a mineral?
A land dominated by trees
What is a forest?
Percentage of the energy used in Canada that comes from fossil fuels
What is 76%?
What is southern?
Products coming into a country
What are imports?
The most harmful type of mining for the environment
What is open pit mining?
The two countries that have larger forests than Canada
The term for extracting natural gas
What is fracking?
The place (xth) of The Northwest Territories in the world for exports
What is 6th?
Materials that exist in nature that have material economic value
What are natural resources?
The three types of fossil fuels
What are oil, coal, and natural gas?
The two broad categories that forests are divided into
What is commercial and non-commercial?
The alternative energy that is generated through nuclear fission, where heavy atoms like uranium is split into smaller parts
What is nuclear energy?
The definition of non-foliated metamorphic rocks
What is the type of metamorphic rock that do not have layers?
Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs
What is sustainable development?
What is sedimentary rock?
The percentage of the boreal forest that are wetlands
What is 30%?
The step-by-step of how fossil fuels form
What is...
1. A plant or animal dies and gets buried by dirt and rock
2. It decays over hundreds of millions of years. As it decays, it turns into coal, petroleum, or natural gas
3. People drill into the rock layers and take out the fossil fuel to be used
Example of clastic sedimentary rock
What is (sandstone, conglomerate)?
Use of renewable resources at a rate that allows the resource to renew itself
What is sustain yield management?
An example of extrusive (volcanic) igneous rock
What is (rhyolite, basalt, obsidian)?
The study of tree rings to understand patterns of grown and rest, to better understand a tree's history
What is dendrochronology?
The definition of greenhouse gas
What are greenhouse gases are gases that trap heat in the atmosphere which causes global warming and climate change?
The substance that is melted together with ore concentrate in the process of smelting
What is flux?