Understanding Industries and Resources in Canada

Industries that take raw materials from the environment.

Processing of primary industry products into finished goods.

Provides a wide range of services that support primary and secondary industries.

Industries involving the processing of ideas and information, rather than products.

Overfishing, improved technologies, uncontrolled foreign fishing, and destructive fishing practices.

The tragedy of the commons describes a situation where individuals, acting in self-interest, deplete a shared resource, even when it's not in their long-term benefit.

The largest forest region in Canada, characterized by cold, snowy winters and short, warm summers.

The most productive forest region in Canada, known for its towering trees and diverse wildlife.

Forests managed for the purpose of harvesting timber for profit.

Forests that are not suitable for harvesting due to factors like tree quality or spacing.

A logging method that removes all trees in an area, leaving the land bare.

A logging method that removes some trees, leaving others to provide shelter for regeneration.

A logging method that removes individual trees selectively, minimizing disturbance to the ecosystem.

The supercontinent that formed during the Paleozoic Era.

The movement of tectonic plates is driven by convection currents within the Earth's mantle.

The outermost layer of the Earth, consisting of both continental and oceanic crust.

The thickest layer of the Earth, composed of hot, dense rock and home to convection currents.

The liquid layer of the Earth's core, composed primarily of iron and nickel.

The solid, innermost layer of the Earth's core, composed primarily of iron and nickel at extremely high pressure.

Plate boundaries where plates move apart from each other, creating new crust.

Plate boundaries where plates collide with each other, leading to mountain formation, subduction, or volcanic activity.

Plate boundaries where plates slide past each other horizontally, causing earthquakes.

A region within the Earth's mantle where unusually hot magma plumes rise towards the surface, creating volcanic activity.

Naturally occurring materials in the Earth's crust that form from dead plants and animals.

The process of extracting minerals from the Earth's surface, including strip mining, underground mining, and open pit mining.

A mining method that removes layers of surface soil and rock to expose shallow deposits.

A mining method that involves digging vertical shafts and tunnels to extract minerals from underground deposits.

A mining method that involves digging a large hole to extract minerals from a widespread deposit.

Uranium is the fuel used in nuclear power plants.

Cod was the primary fish caught by Newfoundland fishermen in the Grand Banks before the collapse.

A globe is the most accurate way to portray the Earth because it replicates its spherical shape.

The Mercator projection is a map projection that preserves compass bearings but distorts size, making it ideal for navigation but less accurate for representing landmass size.

The Winkel-Tripel projection is a map projection that balances accuracy in size, shape, and distance, making it a good compromise, though it distorts direction slightly.

Title, key, latitude/longitude, scale, and compass rose.

The Prime Meridian runs through Greenwich, England, at 0 degrees longitude, and is used as a reference point for measuring longitude.

The International Date Line runs through the Pacific Ocean at 180 degrees longitude, and marks the transition between days.

The equator is located at 0 degrees latitude and divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.