Resource Sustainability and Industries Quiz

Resource Sustainability

• Natural Resource: Components of the environment, providing goods and services (air, sunlight, water, land, vegetation, animals, geological resources).
• Ecological Footprint: A measurement (hectares) calculating human impact on resources, considering consumption, waste, and pollution.
• Ecological Overshoot: The extent to which resource demands exceed Earth's supply.
• Sustainability: Meeting present needs without compromising future generations' ability to meet their needs.
• Solutions/Actions: Reducing waste, reusing/recycling/repurposing, conserving water/energy, limiting plastics, and using reusable items.
• Footprint Factors: Energy use, housing area, product resources, food production land, and waste disposal areas all make up an individual's ecological footprint.
• Resource Inequality: About 20% of the global population consumes roughly 80% of Earth's resources.

Types of Industries

• Industry: Economic activity processing raw materials and producing goods/services.
• Primary Industries: Extract raw materials (mining, agriculture, forestry, fishing, oil/gas). Contribute 6% of Canada's total goods and services.
• Secondary Industries: Manufacturing and construction, using primary industry resources (auto manufacturing, food processing).
• Tertiary Industries: Offer services (retail, transportation, entertainment, healthcare, banking, education).
• Quaternary Industries: Focused on ideas (research, development, ICT, management, scientific research).

Energy Resources in Canada

• Conventional Energy: Fossil fuels (oil, gas, coal), nuclear. Cost-effective, accessible, high output. Pollute, non-renewable, produce radioactive waste.
• Alternative Energy: Renewable sources (solar, wind, tidal, geothermal, biomass, hydro). Clean burning, environmentally friendly.
• Unconventional Energy: Hydraulic fracturing (fracking) to extract oil/gas from shale formations.
• Main Energy Uses: Industry, agriculture, transportation, residential, commercial, institutional.
• Renewable Energy in Canada: Hydro is the dominant renewable energy source (59.3% of electricity generation). Followed by wind (3.5%). Biomass (1.4%). Wind and solar are growing fastest.

Oil Sands & TMX

• Trans Mountain Pipeline: Transports crude oil and petroleum from Edmonton to Vancouver (transferred to other countries as well).

• Alberta Oil Sands: Lake Athabasca, Peace River, Cold Lake. Sources of bitumen.

• Surface Mining: Extracts oil sands near surface. Uses heavy machinery, then processes to separate bitumen.

• In-Situ Extraction: Extracts bitumen from deeper deposits. More costly, less disruptive to the land surface, but higher greenhouse gas emissions than surface mining. This method involves pumping solutions to force the bitumen to the surface.

• Oil Sands Characteristics: Non-renewable. Bitumen processed for home, factory, vehicle fuels, and plastics.

• Bitumen Removal: Heats freshwater (uses natural gas) to extract bitumen from sand. Water/sand mixture goes to tailing ponds (toxic due to oil residue).

Test your knowledge on sustainability concepts, ecological footprints, and resource management. This quiz covers topics like ecological overshoot and the importance of reducing waste. Additionally, assess your understanding of the various types of industries and their impact on resource consumption.