Category: Geography

Qaulity-of-Life In your groups, read one of the 4 stories presented in this slideshow. For your own example, decide on the quality of life for that selected region, and be sure to explain what adds to their quality of life. “What factors decide our quality of life?” Blue_Gold_Video_Notes

Mineral and Fossil Fuels What are examples of minerals? Fossil fuels? What are extraction methods of fossil fuels and minerals? How is extracting fossil fuels or minerals dangerous to the environment? The economy? What are the 4 different types of resources (how do we classify them)? Canada’s Resources and Impact What are Canada’s 7 Fs…

http://powerforthefuture.ca/electricity-411/electricity-map/ For your Ecological Footprint Paragraphs, please have the following: A description of your SPECIFIC plan to improve that portion of your resource usage/ecological footprint A description of HOW this is going to improve your ecological footprint. (Ex. Where in the process of getting food does this plan help reduce Fossil Fuel usage?) Why you…

Various (Ferrous Metals, Water, etc.): https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/energy/oil-sands/5849 http://www.canadiangeographic.com/atlas/intro.aspx?lang=En# Farming: http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/forest-harvesting/ http://www.agr.gc.ca/eng/about-us/publications/we-grow-a-lot-more-than-you-may-think/?id=12518 Flowing Water:  http://powerforthefuture.ca/electricity-411/electricity-map/ http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/energy/electricity-infrastructure/electricity-in-canada/7305 http://www.explainthatstuff.com/powerplants.html Fishing: http://www.livescience.com/15573-humans-hit-oceans-hard.html  

Please use the following link to access the reading from the text. Look at page 230-233 for the information needed. Fossil Fuel Extraction Chapter Once you have read the pages 230-233, complete the chart on the following handout (distributed in class). Fossil-Fuel-Extraction Handout To complete the back side of the handout, we will watch the…

Use the following link to access page 236-238 of the textbook. We have looked at several ways that natural resources are used in our lives and in lives of those around the world. We are now going to look at how we get these resources and how it impacts the world we live in. Extracting…

Once you have completed your research about your chosen Technology and what resources it uses, complete the following handout (given in class). Use-of-Natural-Resources The information for the chart can be found on page 152-153 of the following link. Resources Around the World

In groups, you will create a mind map of what the term “resource” means to you. Follow the instructions from the smart board. Once your group has completed the map, you are going to use the following link to complete the definition sheet provided in class. Resource Intro

The slideshow from the guest speaker can be found here: Sustainability Ideas These are several examples of sustainable practises that you can use to help your research. An example of what your final product may look like can be found here. This is a slideshow, but you may choose any way you prefer to show…

Sustainability Intro