Where & How Pesticides Spread
What are the three prairie provinces that use the most pesticides in Canada due to large scale farming?
What are Saskatchewan, Alberta, and Manitoba?
What does “MRL” stand for?
What is the Maximum residue limits?
When pesticides enter rivers and lakes, these aquatic organisms may be harmed.
What are fish?
Where can the chemicals spread and leak to?
Rivers and Groundwater
What can contaminated water, food, and air from pesticides lead to?
Health problems like cancers and neurological conditions.
What are the other prairie provinces, pesticides are heavily used in these two provinces?
What are Ontario and Quebec?
Why does Health Canada set MRLs?
To make sure food is safe and pesticide levels are not harmful.
Pesticides can reduce plant diversity, affecting the basic need most animals rely on from plants.
What is food?
From 1981 to 2006, the overall risk of water contamination remained stable. About how much was this percentage?
90%
According to CAREX Canada, how many agricultural workers are exposed to glyphosate?
Between 38,000 and 56,000
In Canada, grain and oilseed-producing regions tend to use more of this type of pesticide, compared to fruit- and vegetable-growing regions.
What are herbicides?
By 2020, about how many MRLs existed in Canada?
About 24,000
This sustainable farming approach reduces chemical use by using crop rotation, beneficial insects, and monitoring carefully.
What is Integrated Pest Management?
In 2022, Canada has sold about how much pesticides?
139 million kilos
Name 2 jobs where people are commonly exposed to pesticides
farmers, golf course workers, pesticide manufacturers (any 2)
Rain going downhill can carry pesticides into lakes and rivers die to this geographic factor.
What is topography/slope?
Between 1981 and 2021, did pesticide-contamination risk mostly increase or decrease?
increase.
What is the percentage of how many crops would be lost annually without pesticides?
What is 30% - 40%
What can pesticides pollute on earth?
What is water, soil, and air?
What has increased in Lake Winnipeg since the 1990s?
What is the Nitrogen and phosphorus levels
This soil property controls how far pesticides travel, how long they stay in the environment, and how crops absorb them.
What is soil type?
What kind of pesticide comes from natural materials?
What is Biopesticides?
In Canada, farmers must follow rules from this agency to ensure pesticides are used safely and do not harm the environment.
What is the Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA)?
Canada is one of the ___ users in the world of pesticides.
Canada is one of the top pesticide users.
Why are Indigenous peoples raising awareness about pesticide use?
Because it affects their health, land, and environment.