Unit #2 - Resources and Industries

Question 1

Sustained yield management

Answer 1

Maintaining continuous production on all our lands that are economically and environmentally suited for timber production

Question 2

Waste diversion (3 R’s)

Answer 2

Reduce, reuse, and recycle

Question 3

Renewable vs. nonrenewable resources

Answer 3

Renewable resources can naturally replenish themselves while nonrenewable resources cannot

Question 4

Aquacultre

Answer 4

Breeding, raising, and harvesting fish, shellfish, and aquatic plants on farms floating on water

Question 5

Groundwater

Answer 5

Water that is stored underground in saturated zones beneath the ground

Question 6

Intensive vs. extensive farming

Answer 6

Intensive farming focuses on investing a lot of resources and labor into small tracts of land in order to increase yield and extensive farming employs larger tracts of land and lower quantities of labor and resources

Question 7

Clear vs. selective cutting

Answer 7

Clear-cutting is the removal of all or nearly all trees in the stand and in selective harvest logging, most trees remain

Question 8

inshore vs. offshore fishery

Answer 8

Inshore fisheries remains closer to the shore in smaller vessels and offshore fisheries brings fishermen far and wide in large fishing vessels for long periods of time

Question 9

Grand banks

Answer 9

Underwater plateaus that rise from the North American continental shelf and are one of the world’s richest fishing grounds

Question 10

Reasons for the collapse of the East Coast Fisheries

Answer 10

Overfishing, destructive fishing practices, and changes in natural conditions

Question 11

Alternative energy

Answer 11

Wind power, geothermal energy, solar energy, hydropower, nuclear energy, and biomass

Question 12

Fossil fuels

Answer 12

A nonrenewable resource that is made from decomposing plants and animals that were compressed under the Earth’s crust for millions of years

Question 13

Flow resource

Answer 13

(Water, wind, and sunlight) Resources that must be used when and where they occur because they are neither renewable nor nonrenewable and are location influenced

Question 14

Oil/tar sands

Answer 14

Loose sands or sandstone that is saturated with bitumen that is mainly found in Alberta, Canada

Question 15

Fracking

Answer 15

The process of injecting pressurized liquid into underground formations to force them to open further to extract oil or gas

Question 16

Tariff

Answer 16

Basically a shipping tax between countries imposed by governments or supranational unions for exports or inputs of goods

Question 17

Types of industries

Answer 17

Primary, secondary, and tertiary industries

Question 18

Ecological footprint

Answer 18

It measures the biologically productive area needed to provide for everything that people demand from nature