Ontario cities. | Rivers and Lakes | Climographs | Forestry | Mining |
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What is Elliot Lake
Ontario City most famous for boom and bust cycle in the uranium mining sector.
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What is Lake Superior
The largest of the great lakes.
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What is precipitation
Marked as bar graphs on the climograph.
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What is clear cutting
The type of logging that cuts down everything in the forest.
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What is prospecting and claimstaking
The first step in the mining process including collecting of soil samples looking for possible signs of ore.
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What is Sudbury
City in Northern Ontario where nickel is mined.
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What is Lake of the woods
Lake near the border of Manitoba.
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What is temperature
Marked as a line graph on the climograph.
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What is selective cutting
The type of logging that actually produces the most lumber since it only cuts mature trees.
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What is building the mine and closing it
A plan for returning a mined area to its natural state
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What is Ottawa
This is the capital of Canada.
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What is the Montreal River
River north of Sault Ste. Marie named after the second largest Canadian city
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What is the snowfall line
The line marked at 2 degrees Celsius on the climograph.
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What is selective cutting
The type of logging that cuts the mature trees in 2 or more cuts and leave older trees to provide seeds for new trees.
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What is basic and intermediate exploration
Mapping, surveying, possible drilling trenching and stripping to extract ore samples for analysis
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What is Toronto
The largest city in Ontario and the capital of the province.
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What is Georgian Bay
The bay on the east end of Lake Huron.
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What is 15 degrees
The degree line marking the summer season.
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What is patch and strip logging
A cut 20 meters wide and 460 meters long is an example of this type of logging
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What is advanced exploration
Camps built, roads, underground tunnels made
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What is Thunder Bay
Is a larger city on the northwest shore of Lake Superior.
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What is Lake Michigan
The one great lake that is not or does not border on Ontario.
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What are latitude and longitude
The terms that determine the location of a climate station.
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What is clear cutting
Large machines are used to cut the forest.
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What is Elliot Lake
Uranium was the main mining produced at this city.
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