Unit 3 - Managing Canada's Resources and Industries

Question 0

What is a natural resource?

Answer 0

A resource found in nature.

Wood, water, sunlight

Question 1

What is a renewable resource?

Answer 1

A resource that is renewable.
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It’s a resource that can replace itself once it has been used.

Question 2

What is a non-renewable resource?

Answer 2

A resource that can only be used once.

Coal, iron, oil

Question 3

What is a flow resource?

Answer 3

A resource that is replaced by natural action weather or not humans use it.
Water, wind

Question 4

What are the four Industries?

Answer 4

Primary
Secondary
Tertiary
Quaternary

Question 5

What is a primary industry?

Answer 5

Industries that extract the raw materials from the environment

Question 6

What is a secondary industry?

Answer 6

Industries that manufacture/process the raw materials

Question 7

What is the Tertiary industry?

Answer 7

Industries that sell the processed goods

Question 8

What is the Quaternary industry?

Answer 8

The industry that sells/exchanges information

Question 9

What are imports and exports?

Answer 9

Imports - When goods or services are brought into the country.
Exports - The sale of products or services to another country

Question 10

What is GDP (Gross domestic product)

Answer 10

The total value of all goods and services in a country, per person.

Question 11

What are hydroponics?

Answer 11

A way of farming that doesn’t require soil

Question 12

What is sustainable yield forest management?

Answer 12

Use of a forests’ resources at a rate that allows the forest to renew itself

Question 13

What is softwood?

Answer 13

Wood from coniferous (Needle-leaved) trees

Question 14

What is hardwood?

Answer 14

Wood from broad-leaved trees

Question 15

What are commercial forests?

Answer 15

The part of a forest that has large enough trees and is close enough to a market to allow it to be harvested by a forest industry.

Question 16

What is aquaculture?

Answer 16

The production of fish and other marine products on fish farms

Question 17

What are metallic minerals?

Answer 17

Minerals that we use for beauty and jewellery, such as gold, silver, and platinum.

Question 18

What are the advantages and disadvantages of technological advancement?

Answer 18

Advantages - We get awesome new technology such as cars, planes, phones, etc.

Disadvantages - Making these things requires resources and power, and can pollute the environment.

Question 19

What are the 4 factors that contribute to agricultureal success?

Answer 19

Soil
Topography
Biological systems
Climate

Question 20

Why is agriculture so important to Canadians?

Answer 20

It provides jobs, money, and food to the country

Question 21

What is intensive farming?

Answer 21

Small farms in an urban area that require lots of labour and supplies in order to yield a crop. They usually don’t make a lot of money because there isn’t enough land to produce high profits.

Question 22

What is extensive farming?

Answer 22

Farming in rural areas where you can get lots of crops because less labour is required. Even if you make a low amount of crops, you will still make a profit.

Question 23

What is sustainable forest management and why is it important?

Answer 23

SFM is cutting down trees at a rate where the forest can replenish its losses. It is important because we need to keep Canadas’ forests alive for future generations.

Question 24

What are some concerns for the fishing industry?

Answer 24

Fish are being over caught. We are losing fish production.

Question 25

What types of products come from mining? Name 3

Answer 25

Iron
gold
platinum
copper
uranium
diamonds
emeralds
rubys
coal
silver
etc.

Question 26

How does Canada make energy? (What types of energy do we make)

Answer 26

Hydro
Natural gas
coal
nuclear
wind