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.