Industries in Canada
Forestry
Mining
Fishing/Farming
Renewable/Non-Renewable
100

An industry that is responsible for extracting raw materials from the earth

What is the Primary Industry?

100

A method where all the trees in a given area are cut down for lumber

What is clear cutting?

100

Using high temperatures to melt the ore and extract the mineral

What is Smelting?

100

Chemical given to animals to increase their size

What is growth hormone?

100

Renewable resource that used rays from the sun to generate electricity?

What is Solar Power?
200

Bank, Restaurant, Clothing store

What are examples of tertiary industries?

200

A forest with the highest tree diversity (with both coniferous/ deciduous) and is home to over half of Canada’s endangered animals

What is the Mixed forest?

200

minerals that have many different uses and they are usually used to make tools/ parts of buildings

What are industrial Minerals?

200

An environmentally responsible source of food and commercial products that is done via breeding, raising, and harvesting fish, shellfish, and aquatic plants

What is Aquaculture?

200

Natural resources that cannot be replenished at a rate comparable to their consumption, meaning they are finite and will eventually run out.

What are non-renewable resources?

300

Education, programming, consultations

What are examples of quaternary industries?

300

Acid rain, forest fires, pests

What are examples of threats to forests?

300

Mining method that using drilling and explosives a pit is created from the ground where ore (metal mixed with rock) can be harvested 

What is open pit mining?

300
  • Climate

  • Soil

  • Topography

  • Biology

What are the factors that make farming successful?

300

Heat energy contained within the Earth's interior, which can be harnessed for various uses like heating, cooling, and electricity generation

what is geothermal energy?

400

this is the largest industry in all of Canada

What is Banking (tertiary) industry?

400

In 2003 this insect caused a lot of disease to trees resulting in the cutting and burning of these trees by the government

What is the Asian Longhorn Beetle?

400

 minerals that release a lot of energy when they burn

What are fossil fuels

400

Type of farm that uses only natural substances to grow their food, Does Not produce as much as conventional farms and the food is more natural 

What is organic farming?

400

Pollution, scarcity, droughts

What are some reasons water is not renewable?

500

Process raw materials to produce such supplies as iron and steel, pulp and paper, and petroleum products

What is primary manufacturing?

500

The three major products from trees

What are lumber, pulp and paper?

500

The largest metallic mineral mine in Canada is located here

What is British Columbia?

500

It is a practice where farmers prepare the land to plant food

Machinery would be used to loosen up soil 

What is tilling?

500

A renewable energy source derived from organic materials, primarily plant and animal matter

What is Biomass energy?