1. Resources and Industries
Unit 2

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

3. 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?

4. 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

5. 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

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

7. 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

8. 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

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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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?

13. 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

14. Overview of Renewable Resources
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Complete Chart