geo Natural Resources Flashcards
Natural Resources
Occur naturally in physical or biotic environments.
Renewable resources
Can be self renewable or can be with human assistance if we do not abuse/ overuse them.
(trees, crops, animals, water)
Non renewable resources
Non living ( fossil fuels, rocks, minerals, metals). They are considered finite because they take hundreds and thousands if not millions of years to produce.
Natural assets=
natures services or ecosystem services
Nature provides many services to society such as;
bees pollinate fruits and vegetables, plants take carbon dioxide from the air, wetlands buffer pollution, plants provide medicine and oxygen.
The British North America Act 1887
Gave authority over different things to the federal and provincial governments.
Some of these overlap.
Federal government control
Has control over anadromous fish (like salmon), taxation, education, defence. National or international interests (pipelines, river over the border).
Provincial government control
Has control over freshwater which salmon breed in, forests, energy, oil, gas, and minerals.
Local government control
control land use decisions. Designation of land use goes through official community plans and zoning.
Primary industry
fishing, logging, farming, mining.
Secondary industry
Manufacturing
Sawmill, pulpmill, smelter, fish cannery, food processing, oil refinery.
Harold Innes
Raw resources have been termed “staples”.
Fordism
Assembly line; mass production associated with manufacturing.
Backward and forward linkages
Establishing the conditions nesassary to..
1. access the natural resource
2. transportation facilities.
3. infrastructure
4. labor
5. energy.
6. ports
final demand linkages
Markets, marketing, advertising, retail, distribution.
