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What uses the majority of Canada's water footprint?
Nuclear power generation (%72)
Thermal power (%67)
Fisheries (%87)
Agriculture (%47.3)
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How much water is taken out of our Canadian lakes/rivers for farms and factories?
117 billion litres
1.3 trillion litres
95 billion litres
27 million litres
3
What's an trade balance?
When a country imports more than it exports
When a country exports more than it imports
When imports equal exports
When local trade prospers due to foreign competion
4
What's an trade surplus?
When local trade prospers due to foreign competion
When global trade increases due to inflation
When a country imports more than it exports
When a country exports more than it imports
5
What's a natural resource?
Something found naturally, and is useful.
A resource that requires significant processing to become useful.
A renewable resource that is created through human intervention.
A synthetic material produced from chemicals.
6
Canada exports enough grain to make over ____________ loaves of bread
73 billion
4 billion
82 billion
620 million
7
Who owns Canada’s forests?
%36 by foreign entities
%52 by citizens
%77 by the goverment
%43 by the goverment
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Canada's regularly in the top _______ wheat exporters
10
6
14
4
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What's primary industry?
Harvesting a resource
Selling finished products to consumers
Things like healthcare or education
Manufacturing goods from raw materials
10
How many countries does Mexico have trade agreements with?
18
45
7
165
11
What's secondary industry?
Developing software and digital applications
Harvesting crops or fishing for food
Manufacturing goods from raw materials
Transporting raw materials to factories
12
Canada has the
____
largest in world oil supply in the ground
10th
1st
3rd
4th
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What's a non-renewable resource?
A renewable resource that is created through human intervention.
A resource that requires significant processing to become useful.
Doesn't regenerate within 100 years
Something found naturally, and is useful.
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What's an Import?
When a business spends more on exports
Bring in something from abroad to buy
When a government encourages foreign companies to enter their country
Send something abroad to sell
15
How's Natural Gas formed?
By man-made matter composing into carbon-filed rocks.
By living matter expressing over millions of years.
By dead matter compressing over millions of years.
By matter compressing over millions of years.
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What's a tariff?
When taxes increase due to increased government spending
When reduced taxes are applied to assist foreign econonies
A tax put in either exports or imports
When local trade prospers due to foreign competion
17
What percent of the United States oil supply is from Canada?
%78
%13
%43
%34
18
What's Energy?
Power generation
A measurement of power (also known as AMPs)
Transportation of electricity to businesses
Electricity
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What's an Export?
Send something abroad to sell
When a business spends more on exports
Bring in something from abroad to buy
When a government encourages foreign companies to enter their country
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What are the 3 things needed for sustainibilty?
The people, the plant, the transportation
The plants, the people, and the people
The economy, the planet, and the profits
The economy, the planet, the people
21
How many species of trees are found in canada?
1 800
180
18
1 670
22
What are 6 important factors in manufacturing?
Capital, Labour, Energy, Transportation, Market, and Location
Capital, Transportation, Market, Innovation and Location
Capital, Labour, Transportation, Market, Innovation and Resources
Capital, Labour, Market, Energy and Resources
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How long would it take you to walk Canada’s coastline?
40 years
12 hours a day for 40 years
12 hours a day for 9 years.
9 years
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What's Location/Resources?
When a business picks a location to havest natural resources
The balance between cheap land and access to public services
The place where a business decides to settle
The natural resources available to a business based off their location
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What's a renewable resource?
A resource that requires significant processing to become useful.
Regenerates within 100 years
Something found naturally, and is useful.
A renewable resource that is created through human intervention.
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What's Labour?
Young workers
Government employees who benefit from pensions.
Elederly poeple
Employees
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What's qauternary industry?
Processing and packaging agricultural products for market distribution
Developing and refining energy sources for mass consumption.
Harvesting of ideas. (Ex: AI, social media)
Managing supply chains and logistics for global trade
28
How's Oil formed?
By man-made matter composing into carbon-filed rocks.
By dead matter compressing over millions of years.
By matter compressing over millions of years.
By living matter expressing over millions of years.
29
Where does canadian food go?
%60 to U.S
%27to europe
%43 to America
%78 overseas
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Finally, how much did Whetung and other Indigenous leaders sue the Canadian government for?
$574 million
$97 million
$6.8 billion
$2 billion
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What's tertiary industry?
Engaging in activities related to energy production and distribution
Providing a service
Manufacturing and assembling goods for mass production
Developing infrastructure such as roads, bridges, and utilities
32
How much money is earned through sap?
$35.4 million
$354 million
%27 of our economy
$354 thousand
33
How many freshwater lakes does Canada have?
1.5 thousand
2 million
200 000 thousand
27 million
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What's an trade deficit?
When a country imports more than it exports
When a country exports more than it imports
When global trade decreases due to inflation
When local trade suffers due to foreign competion
35
Canada contains %47.2 of the world's potash reserves
True
False
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How many people does the forest industry employ in Canada?
860 000 canadians
600 000 canadians
6 000 000 canadians
60 thousand canadians
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How many species of plants, animals and micro-organisms are found in the forest?
135
140 000
14 000
167 000
38
When did the G7 first meet?
1943
1967
1976
1892
39
How's coal formed?
By dead matter compressing over millions of years.
By matter compressing over millions of years.
By living matter expressing over millions of years.
By man-made matter composing into carbon-filed rocks.
40
What's Market?
The amount of money circulating
The current state of the economy
The stock market, where people can invest
The people or places that will buy your product
41
How much of the world's forest does Canada have?
%7
15%
%17
%9
42
What's Capital?
Deductions from taxes for local bussinesses
Money from investors/banks
Tax breaks to encourage businesses to grow
Money stolen through tax evasion
43
What's a trade agreement?
A treatry to export a fixed amount of product to a member country.
An agreement to import a fixed percentage from a certain party.
An international deal to not put tariffs/restrictions on each other.
An international deal to put tariffs on each other.
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What's a water footprint?
How much virtual/real water a person uses
The level of water/fluids that commerical companies waste.
How much water is needed to produce the things to cover a foot
Similar to carbon footprint, measures people's internal water levels.
45
A flow resource...
Isn't affected by us harvesting it
Must be continuously replenished through human efforts.
A non-renewable resource that takes millions of years to form.
Regenerates itself within 100 years
46
What countries are part of the G7?
France, U.S, UK, Germany, Japan, European Union, Italy, and Canada.
England, Scotland, U.K, Spain, Italy, E.U, Canada, Japan
U.S, UK, Germany, Japan, European Union, Italy, and Canada.
China, Russia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Italy, Spain.
47
Where is the largest uranium mine in the world?
Saskatchewan
Alberta
New Brunswick
Manitoba
48
What's "virtual water"?
The water that is used to produce virtual machines.
A specific type of genetically engineered water that is bought online.
Total amount of water used to make something
Refers to amount of water used virtually, like in Data centres
49
What proportion of vehicle-assembly jobs has been lost in Canada since 2001?
5.6 million low-level employees
1/3 of vehicle assembly jobs
25 thousand workers
4/10 of vechicle assembly jobs
50
anada’s mines pump out over ___ different metals and minerals.
152 types
60 types
45 types
70 types
51
Where was the first oil well dug?
Northern Alberta
Eastern Newfoundland’s
South Quebec
South-western Ontario
52
How many different countries do Canada make coins for?
30
75
65
750
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What's Transportation?
People using vehicles to go places
The degradation of infrastructure due to ongoing use
A means to transport products (internationally/domestically)
The infrastructure used for trains, planes, and automobiles
