Resources and Industries Unit 2

Big Question How is our future tied to our ability to manage our resources and economic activities effectively?

Smaller Questions How is your quality of life related to Canada’s abundant resources? Is your lifestyle good for the environment? How would you feel about living and working in another part of Canada in the future?

Resources and Industries “The Story of Stuff” See handout Pick 1 fact that you already knew Pick 1 fact that you didn’t know and find interesting Pick 1 fact you don’t understand Pick 1 fact you wish to know more about http://storyofstuff.org/movies/story-of-stuff/

Resources All the components of the environment are called “total stock” Total stock includes: energy, living organisms and non living materials Anything within the total stock that is useful to humans is called a resource Resources are valuable in some way- resources that are found in the natural environment- therefore they are called natural resources

Resources Within the total stock are resources and these resources are divided into 4 categories Renewable resources Non-renewable resources Flow resources Other resources

Renewable Constantly being replenished by nature Renewed at a fast enough rate that they should be available to humans as long as we need them However this is only true if we don’t consume the resource at a quicker rate than its renewable rate Soil, forests and fish stocks

Non- renewable Created by nature slowly (over millions of years) The stock that exists today is all there will ever be Fossil fuels and minerals

Flow resources Constantly being produced by nature Supply cannot be damaged by human activity Sunlight, wind and water currents

Other Resources that do not fit into one of the other categories Humans can destroy them but rarely do Economically beneficial Usually experiential or by sight Niagara Falls

Which are the following? Put the following resources under there most appropriate resource type (non renewable, renewable, flow and other) Coal Forests Natural Gas Sunlight Fertile soil Gold River Flow Wind Fish Iron Ore Northern Lights Rocky Mountains

Renewable Resources Ensuring renewable resources for the future…or does that matter? Economic activities in Canada: Farming Forestry Fishing What important characteristics do all of these activities share?

Renewable Resources They are all activities that depend on the renewable resources of soil, trees and fish What must be done to ensure that these resources remain renewable? Mining the resource (bad): exploiting the renewable resource in an unsustainable way Sustained management(good): managing a resource to ensure that the amount harvested does not destroy the resource and allows it to renew

Overview of Renewable Resources Pages 103-105 Complete Chart