Unit 2 Review

Question 1

Resource

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Natural Resource

Answer 2

Things found in the total stock that people find useful

Question 3

Renewable Resource

Answer 3

Resources that can be regenerated if used carefully

Question 4

Non-Renewable Resource

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Flow Resource

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Other Resource

Answer 6

Resources that do not fit in to other categories

Question 7

Reducing

Answer 7

Using less resources (most resource savings)

Question 8

Reusing

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Recycling

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Mining The Resource

Answer 10

Exploiting a renewable resource in an unsustainable way

Question 11

Sustained Yield Management

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Old Growth Forest

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Aquaculture

Answer 13

Fish farming

Question 14

Inshore Fishery

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Offshore Fishery

Answer 15

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

Question 16

Precipitation

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Stores

Answer 17

Places in the world where water is stored

Question 18

Flows

Answer 18

Mechanisms by which stores move from one reserve to another

Question 19

Groundwater Discharge

Answer 19

Precipitation that falls below the bedrock and flows to the stores

Question 20

Evapotranspiration

Answer 20

Transport of water from the ground into the atmosphere

Question 21

Consumption

Answer 21

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

Question 22

Extraction

Answer 22

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

Question 23

Drainage Basin

Answer 23

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

Question 24

Condensation

Answer 24

Processing of water from gas to liquid

Question 25

Interception

Answer 25

Precipitation that is blocked by vegetation and trees

Question 26

Percolate

Answer 26

Precipitation that goes through the bedrock

Question 27

Surface Runoff

Answer 27

Rain that falls on the ground

Question 28

R/P Ratio

Answer 28

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

Question 29

Reserves

Answer 29

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

Question 30

Production

Answer 30

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

Question 31

Oil Sands/Tar Sands

Answer 31

Sand containing a small amount of petroleum, called bitumen

Question 32

Fracking

Answer 32

Pumping chemicals into the ground to extract natural gas

Question 33

Metallic Mineral

Answer 33

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

Question 34

Non-Metallic Mineral

Answer 34

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

Question 35

Ore

Answer 35

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

Question 36

Mineral Reserve

Answer 36

Resources known to be economically feasible for extraction

Question 37

Outsourcing

Answer 37

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

Question 38

Primary Industry

Answer 38

Industries that harvest natural resources

Question 39

Secondary Industry

Answer 39

Industries that process raw materials into a consumer product.

Question 40

Tertiary Industry

Answer 40

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

Question 41

Globalization

Answer 41

Worldwide integration or expanding to other parts of the world

Question 42

Knowledge Based Industry (Quaternary Industries)

Answer 42

Industries that provide intellectual services like research

Question 43

Basic Job/Industry

Answer 43

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

Question 44

Non-Basic Job/Industry

Answer 44

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

Question 45

Transpiration

Answer 45

Plants pull water from the ground to be evaporated