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Potash
Copper Zinc Diamonds Gold Coal
What are the six minerals that are mined in Canada?
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By continuing clear cutting, you are effecting many of the wildlife because animals are dependent on forests as their natural habitat. By clear cutting it's leaving the ground coverage open to erosion.
Why is it bad for the environment to keep clear cutting trees? What does it effect.
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An immigrant is a person who moves to a new country with intention of settling there.
What is a immigrant?
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Climate is the weather over a long period of time.
What is climate?
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The key to building Glaciers anywhere is to have more snowfall in winter than when it melts during summer.
What is key to building Glaciers?
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Copper is used for pipes.
What is Copper used for?
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A commercial forest is a forest that has large enough trees and is still close enough to a market to allow it to be harvested by the forest industry.
What is a commercial forest?
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An Immigrant needs a certain about of points to enter Canada.
What does an immigrant need to have to be aloud in Canada?
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The six factors that affect Climate are,
1)Latitude 2)Winds and air masses 3)Ocean Currents 4)Elevation(Altitude) 5)Relief 6)Nearness to water
What are the 6 factors that affect climate?
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An Alpine Glacier is a glacier that is associated with mountain ranges and that flow in confined areas.
What is an Alpine Glacier?
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Fossil Fuels are largely used for transportation and heating.
What are Fossil Fuels mainly used for?
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Clear cutting is, is a logging method where all the mainly large trees are cut down at one time leaving nothing but small trees.
What is Clear Cutting?
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Immigrants bring a different culture to Canada which is huge because it characterizes the ways we live.
What do immigrants bring to Canada?
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Air mass is large bodies of air having the same moisture and temperature conditions throughout.
What is Air Mass?
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The two large ice sheets located today are in
1) Greenland 2)Antarctica
Where are the two large ice sheets located today?
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The three main mining methods are, Strip mining, Open pit mining and Underground mining.
What are the three main mining methods?
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The % of Canada's land area that is covered by forestry is 42%.
What is the % of Canada's land area that is covered by forestry?
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Push factors that cause people to leave their country is war, natural disasters, poor living conditions,government ruling and religious persecution.
What makes people leave their country?
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The earths tilt is 23.5*
What is the earths tilt?
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Ablation Zone is, the loss of ice due to melting and sublimation.
What is Ablation Zone?
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Diamonds are commonly used for cutting tools and making jewelry.
What are diamonds commonly used for in mining?
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Aerial spraying is a chemical that they spray over the forests to kill pesticides(bugs) that affect the trees. It also effects wildlife and the ecosystem.
What is Aerial Spraying?
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Some pull factors that draw immigrants to Canada is, Job opportunities, better living conditions,no war, good health care and education.
What are some pull factors that draw immigrants to Canada?
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The Tropical Maritime air masses are formed in the South and over Water. They are mostly warm and moist.
Where are the Tropical Maritime air masses formed?
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Ice bergs tend to break off from the front of the glacier leaving a steep cliff of ice that maybe hundreds of meters tall.
What happens to tide water glaciers?
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