Fisheries
This kind of fish is often found on the Pacific coast
What is Salmon?
PEI is especially well known for producing this russety crop.
What are potatoes?
This type of energy generation system takes energy from the sun and turns it into electricity
What is solar power?
This is a type of water that has been stored underground for thousands of years.
What is fossil water?
Mining for iron ore would be part of this industry.
What is primary industry
This term is used to describe fish farming.
What is aquiculture?
What is Quebec?
This type of system takes energy from moving water and turns it into electricity.
What is hydropower (or a powerdam)?
This system of lakes is the largest freshwater system in the world - but you'll need to name all 5.
What is, Lake Ontario, Erie, Michigan, Huron, Superior.
Manufacturing automobiles in Southern Ontario is this level of industry.
What is secondary industry?
What is trawling (dredging is different, but acceptable)
Tractors became an affordable part of farming in what era?
Post-war ear (early-mid 20th century)
This energy resource is essentially decomposed plant and animal matter that has been buried under the earth for thousands of years.
What are fossil fuels (or one type of fossil fuel)
This ship was lost forever when "the gales of November came early."
What is the Edmund Fitzgerald. (100pts bonus, who write the song?)
The Prime Minister, a CEO, or another executive with a "gold collar" job is this type of industry
What is the Quinary Industry?
The world's largest lobster is in which Canadian Province?
Shediac, New Brunswick
__________ and _____________ are the two factors that determine good farmland in Canada.
What are soil and climate?
The process of drilling into the earth and using high-pressure water to release gas stored in underground shale (especially in the prairie provinces).
What is Fracking?
Water that returns to the ocean below the surface of the ground is known as this.
What is groundwater?
G.D.P. stands for what term.
What Gross Domestic Product? (ie. the combined value of production in a country)
This happened to the cod fisheries in 1992
Moritorium
Most farmland tends to be in the _____________ part of the country where the _________________ is longer.
What is the southern part of the country? What is the growing season? (at least one correct answer is acceptable)
What is uranium?
The area in which all waterways flow to a common source is known as this.
What is a watershed.
Between retail and manufacturing, which is the larger employer of Canadians?
What is retail? (2.7 million, vs. 1.7 million in manufacturing, as of 2018)