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Unit 2 Review Flashcards

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Resource

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Basic substances that are used to make everyday items (supply)

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Natural Resource

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Things found in the total stock that people find useful

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Renewable Resource

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Resources that can be regenerated if used carefully

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Non-Renewable Resource

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Resources that are limited and cannot be replaced once they are used up

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Flow Resource

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Resources that are replaced by natural actions and must be used where and when they occur or be lost

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Other Resource

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Resources that do not fit in to other categories

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Reducing

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Using less resources (most resource savings)

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Reusing

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Using a resource multiple times, possibly for different uses (more resource savings)

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Recycling

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Converting waste materials back into a usable resource (some resource savings)

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Mining The Resource

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Exploiting a renewable resource in an unsustainable way

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Sustained Yield Management

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Managing a renewable resource to ensure that the amount harvested does not cause long term depletion, the harvest is equal to or less than the amount replenished each year

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Old Growth Forest

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A natural forest that has developed over a long period of time

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Aquaculture

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Fish farming

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Inshore Fishery

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Commercial fishing carried out close to land in smaller boats (10%)

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Offshore Fishery

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Commercial fishing carried out further from shore in larger boats (90%)

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Precipitation

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Water from the atmosphere that falls to the earth (rain, snow, hail, sleet)

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Stores

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Places in the world where water is stored

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Flows

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Mechanisms by which stores move from one reserve to another

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Groundwater Discharge

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Precipitation that falls below the bedrock and flows to the stores

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Evapotranspiration

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Transport of water from the ground into the atmosphere

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Consumption

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The process of taking water from a store to be used, but it is not returned to the store after the use, it cannot be reused

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Extraction

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The process of taking water from a store to be used, after the use it is returned to the store where it is available to be used again

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Drainage Basin

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Area of land that all leads to the same body of water

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Condensation

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Processing of water from gas to liquid

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Interception

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Precipitation that is blocked by vegetation and trees

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Percolate

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Precipitation that goes through the bedrock

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Surface Runoff

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Rain that falls on the ground

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R/P Ratio

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The number of years that the reserves of a non-renewable resource will last at current rates of production

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Reserves

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How much of a resource is thought to be in the ground, based on exploration to date

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Production

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How much of a resource is being taken from the ground each year

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Oil Sands/Tar Sands

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Sand containing a small amount of petroleum, called bitumen

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Fracking

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Pumping chemicals into the ground to extract natural gas

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Metallic Mineral

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Yields a metal (iron, gold, copper, uranium, zinc, silver, lead), usually from igneous and metamorphic rocks

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Non-Metallic Mineral

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Does not change it’s form when melted (potash, sand, gravel, diamonds, salt, limestone, building stone), usually comes from sedimentary rocks

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Ore

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A rock that contains enough of a valuable metallic mineral to make mining profitable

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Mineral Reserve

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Resources known to be economically feasible for extraction

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Outsourcing

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Contracting with organizations outside your country for work that could otherwise be done by employees within your company.

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Primary Industry

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Industries that harvest natural resources

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Secondary Industry

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Industries that process raw materials into a consumer product.

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Tertiary Industry

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Industries that provide services and distribution of final products to the market

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Globalization

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Worldwide integration or expanding to other parts of the world

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Knowledge Based Industry (Quaternary Industries)

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Industries that provide intellectual services like research

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Basic Job/Industry

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Jobs/industries that sell their products outside their community, bringing in new money

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Non-Basic Job/Industry

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Jobs/industries that sell their products inside their community, not bringing in new money

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Transpiration

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Plants pull water from the ground to be evaporated

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