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CLI |
-Canada Land Inventory -Determines the land capability for agriculture -Done by plane -7 overall classifications |
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Land classifications |
Class 1- best land, virtually no physical or climate limitations Class 4- 50/50, break even Class 7- unsuitable for and type of farming, 86% of Canadian land |
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Intensive farming |
-Populated areas -Small farms -Big labor input -Focused, things are happening, small, focused -Dairy farm |
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Extensive farming |
-Low population density -Large farms -Highly mechanized -Big -Wheat farm |
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Farming- things affected by nature |
-Soil (type and condition) -Amount of precipitation -Length of growing season (how many days of sun) |
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Ways of ruining soil |
-Pesticides -Building things -Crops may take lots of nutrients |
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Sustainable agriculture |
-Rotate crops -Introduce natural predators to get rid of insects (ladybugs) |
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Advantages of organic food |
-Impressionable -Healthier |
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Disadvantage of organic food |
-Cost -Doesn't look perfect (apples, tomatoes) |
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Farming skills |
-mechanical -marketing -organization -mathematics -literacy -financial -science -patience |
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Farming inputs/requirements |
-land -seeds -money -equipment -labor |
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Farming luck |
-weather -wildlife -insects -disease -markets -health |
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Challenge of agriculture |
Customers want good quality food that is inexpensive |
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Farming as a renewable resource |
Soil can be used over and over again as long as you take care of it |
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Energy problems in Canada due to... |
Northern climate- very cold climate for much of the year Spread out- population spread over large amount of land, use lots of energy for transportation Advanced industrial economy Cheap- we waste it |
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Conventional energy |
-Well established -Hydro, coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear electricity |
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Alternative energy |
-Growing number of alternative energy sources -Solar, wind, biomass, geothermal |
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Bitumen |
-A substance consisting of a grain of sand covered in oil -Oil sands in Alberta |
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Hydro electricity advantages |
-good for the environment/clean |
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Hydro electricity disadvantages |
-possibility of flooding -expensive -hard to locate -not much energy |
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Thermo electricity advantages |
-lots of electricity -locate anywhere -burn anything |
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Thermo electricity disadvantages |
-pollution |
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Nuclear electricity advantages |
-no pollution -most energy |
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Nuclear electricity disadvantages |
-most expensive |
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Ecological footprint |
-the amount of the Earth's surface that is needed to run our lives -it is a measure of our resource use and waste production |
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