Natural Resources
Materials that are taken from the Earth and used or made into products
What are Nautural Resources?
Mountains, deserts, and oceans can create barriers to accessing resources.
What are Physical Barriers?
The removal of trees from a large forested area, through methods like selective cutting, clear cutting, it the seed-tree system.
What is Forestry?
Extracts raw materials directly from the Earth.
What are primary industries?
Fisheries, Forestry, Water (hydro), Mining, Oil and gas
What are Canada's 5 Natural resources
Climate determines the types of crops that can be grown and what natural resources can be extracted.
What is Temperature and precipitation?
The removal of fish and other marine life from the Ocean, through methods like trawling, trapping or netting on a large scale.
What is a fishery/ the fishing indusrty?
The production/manufacturing of goods from primary industries
What are Secondary Industries?
I am a categorization based on a resource's ability to be replenished within our lifetimes. (hint: I am finite or infinite)
What is Renewable and non-renewable resources
Extreme climates like deserts or polar regions limit the types of resources that can be found or used.
What is extreme weather?
The harnessing of waters power to be made into electricity
What is Hydro?
The selling of services (i.e., education, healthcare, financial services)
What are tertiary industries?
The management of resources so that they can be used the same way in future generations.
What is sustainable resource management
Technological innovations, such as drilling, mining equipment, and extraction processes, have made it possible to access resources that were previously unreachable or difficult to exploit
What are advancements in extraction?
The removal of minerals from the Earth, through methods like drilling or open pits.
What is the mining industry?
A mining company is extracting copper.
What is an example of Primary industry?
Resources are distributed unevenly across the planet due to the location of natural features like mountains, rivers, oceans, and forests.
What is location and access?
Resources that are abundant in one area can be shipped to areas where they are scarce
What is transportation and trade?
The removal of natural gas or oil from the earth through methods like drilling or fracking.
What is the oil and gas industry?
most of Canada's resources go here in global trade
What is the U.S.A?