geo test Flashcards
(20 cards)
Renewable Resources
a Renewable resources are those that regenerate in months, years, and decades (a human lifetime).
eg. Water(drinking), plants, animals
Non-Renewable Resources
When a resource takes longer than a human lifetime to renew (or doesn’t renew at all once used up).
eg. Soil, oil, gas, coal, minerals
Flow resources
Flow resources must be used when and where they occur because they are neither renewable nor nonrenewable.
eg. Water(hydropower), wind(turbines), sunlight(solar power)
Agriculture
Using Agriculture you can produce crops such as fruits and vegetables which provide food for us
B.C
forestry, metals/minerals, fossil fuels,fishing,agriculture,hydropower
Alberta
fossil fuels, forestry
saskatchewan
agriculture, fossil fuels, metals/minerals
manitoba
metals/minerals, hydropower,agriculture,forestry
ontario
agriculture, forestry, hydropower, metals/minerals
quebec
hydropower, forestry, metals/minerals
Nova scotia
metals/minerals, fishing, fossil fuels
New brunswik
forestry, metals/minerals, fishing
newfoundland
forests, fishing, fossil fuels, metals/minerals
PEI
agriculture, fishing
yukon
metals/minerals
Northwest territories
metals/minerals
nunavut
metals/minerals, fossil fuels
wants
things that people don’t need
needs
things essential for human survival.
natural resource categories
metals/minerals, fishing, forestry, agriculture, hydropower, fossil fuels
