1. NATURAL RESOURCES AND INDUSTRY
INTRODUCTION TO CANADA’S RESOURCES

2. NATURAL RESOURCES
Natural resources are components of the Earth that humans use but are not man-made.
They are substances such as minerals, forests, water, fertile land, and animals that can be used for economic gain.
Natural resources come in two basic categories:
Renewable resources regenerate themselves naturally within approximately 100 years or less.
Non-renewable resources take millions of years to regenerate.

3. NATURAL RESOURCES In Canada, our main renewable resources include:
Agriculture (farming)
Forestry (lumber)
Commercial fisheries (fishing for profit)
Our main non-renewable resources include:
Rocks and minerals (mining)
Fossil fuels (oil and gas)
In addition, our freshwater is a special resource that is essential to our country!

4. USING OUR RESOURCES
They won’t last forever, so it’s important to use our resources wisely!
Mining a resource is exploiting a renewable resource in an unsustainable way (bad!)
Sustained yield management is a process that ensures the amount of a resource used does not exceed how much is renewed each year (good!)

5. USING OUR RESOURCES
The resources we harvest are used by various industries.
Industry isn’t always a bad thing because industry can:
Provide jobs
Drive the economy
Improve our standard of living

6. TYPES OF INDUSTRY Primary Industries:
Extracting raw materials from the ground or water
E.g. mining, forestry, farming, fishing

7. TYPES OF INDUSTRY Secondary Industries:
Manufacturing products by putting things together (using the materials produced by primary industries)
E.g. auto assembly plants, factories, food production

8. TYPES OF INDUSTRY Tertiary Industries:
Providing services to others and/or selling the products produced by secondary industries.
E.g. doctors, teachers, truck drivers, retail sales, etc.

9. Many factors affect all levels of industry in a variety of ways… …In fact, each type of industry often has a chain reaction on the others!