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UNIT 1: ENERGY PRODUCING TERRITORY Non-renewable resources
Limited amounts found in nature Oil, natural gas, coal, uranium (nuclear power)
Renewable resources Does not run out, if they are managed properly
Biomass, tidal and hydro (Run of river and storage plants)
Inexhaustible resources Always available
Solar, wind and geothermy
TERMS TO KNOW Greenhouse effect
Warm the layer of air surrounding the earth. Increase CO2, methane, nitrous oxide and CFCs in the atmosphere
OPECControl oil reserves around the world
KyotoOrganization to reduce greenhouse effect
ALBERTA Tar sands
Tar + sand + water + clay = crude oil
Extract oil with:Open pit mineDerrick
PERSIAN GULF Major oil producer in the world
COTE-NORD AND JAMESIE Hydroelectricity
Robert Bourassa
UNIT 2: AGRICULTURAL TERRITORY Flooding
Heavy precipitation for a limited period of time (storm) Monsoon Rapid melting of snow Ice jam
Drought Dry weather, high temperature, low precipitation Famine Desertification
Insect Infestation Phenomenal number of insects that devour an area of
crops
TECHNIQUES TO COMBAT HAZARDS Improve yields Resistant grains agroforestry
TERMS TO KNOW Salinization Fallow land Irrigation Desertification
CANADIAN PRAIRIES Grain and livestock Manitoba,
Saskatchewan and Alberta
Short hot summer Long cold winter Low precipitation Crop rotation to help
reduce erosion Land susceptible to
erosion after cultivation
UNIT 3: THE INDUSTRIAL TERRITORY Primary Sector
Natural resource development (raw materials) Agriculture, mining, fishing, etc.
Secondary SectorConverting raw materials into products
Automobile industry, textile industry, agri-food industry, etc.
Tertiary SectorServices
Commerce, transport, education, health, communication, etc.
TERMS TO KNOW Revenues from sales – Production
costs = Profits Industrialization High Technology
LOCATION Best near raw materials, modes of
transportation, markets and areas of large labour force.
Cheaper to have other countries make various parts of a product (ex: Car)
Businesses shut down in industrial countries to set up in developing countries (cheaper)
CANADIAN GREAT LAKES Car, iron and
steel production Canal system Acid rain Mercury
pollution
SAGUENAY – LAC SAINT-JEAN Sawmill Aluminum Paper production
UNIT 4: THE FOREST TERRITORY Deciduous forest
Maple, birch, etc. Coniferous forest
Spruce, fir, pine, etc. Tropical rainforest
Cacao tree, calabash tree, lianas, etc. Primeval forest
Virgin or untouched forest Exploited forest
Altered by human beings
SYLVICULTURE Cutting with protection of regeneration
and soils Seed cutting Shelterwood cutting (only older trees
cut down) Selection cutting Block cutting Reforestation
TERMS TO KNOW Deforestation Reforestation Sylviculture FSC
(ecolabelling)
USES Recreational tourism (ecotourism)
Hunting, fishing, art, national parks, observation, traditional activities of the Native people, etc.
Economic resourcesLogging and forestry
Fuel Heating houses, cooking, etc.
HAZARDS Poor forest
practices Legal and illegal
exploitation Urbanization Insects Acid rain
AMAZONIA Tropical
Rainforest Livestock
Forests cut down to make room for more livestock
Precious wood taken illegally
BRITISH COLUMBIA Temperate
rainforest Boreal forest Mountain forest Reforestation
ABITIBI-TEMESCAMINGUE Boreal Mixed Forest
UNIT 5: NATIVE TERRITORY First arrived by the frozen Bering Strait
and hunted woolly mammoths and bison Quebec has 2 Native peoples
InuitAmerindians
Algonquin Iroquois
NATIVE CULTURAL ZONES Arctic
kayak Subarctic
Snowshoes, birch bark canoe Northeast
Longhouses, dried out food to preserve it Great Plains
Teepees, fur clothing Plateau Northwest Coast
Totem poles
TERMS TO KNOW Band Reserve Claim for rights Amautik (big hooded coat) Treaty Katajjak (throat singing)
NATIVE ART Carving Painting Sweet grass
baskets Totem poles Bead work Clothing
Beliefs – Mother Earth and the Creator
Social life – pow wow, sundance, traditional celebrations, sweat lodge
Quality of life – lower life expectancy, high suicide rate, health issues,
depression
Rights – no tax on reservation, ancestral rights
NASKAPI In Quebec near Newfoundland and
Labrador No roads, use plane and train for
transportation Nomadic ways to sedentary
CREE Nomadic to
Sedentary Recreational
tourism (ecotourism)Outfitters
NUNAVUT Language is Inuktitut Inukshuk
To show directionScare off spiritsHuntingPresence of people, etc.