Resources

What is a want?
1. An item that is essential.
2. An item that is not needed.
3. An item that is not usefull.
4. An item that many people need.
What is a need?
1. An item that can be reused.
2. An item that is renewable.
3. An item that is essential.
4. An item that would make people's lives easier.
Which is a non-renewable resource?
1. Zinc
2. Water
3. Trees
4. Deer
Which is a renewable resource?
1. Water
2. Oil
3. Copper
4. Gold
What is a non-renewable resource?
1. A resource that is needed.
2. A resource that can be reused.
3. A resource that can be replenished if used responsibly.
4. A resource that is gone once it is all used up.
What is a renewable resource?
1. A resource that will last forever is used correctly.
2. A resource that is used to meet societies needs.
3. A resource that is used to meet societies wants.
4. A resource that is man made.
Check the following problems that early Saskatchewan settlers had.
1. Harsh winters
2. The Sask Wheat Pool had low prices
3. lack of resources such as lumber
4. They had to clear the land to make it useable.
5. Very little rainfall.
What does SWP stand for?
1. Sask Western Producer
2. Sask Work Place
3. Sask Wheat Pool
What three statements should be used to consider if a resource is useful or not?
1. There is a want or a need for the resource.
2. The resource must have a modern use.
3. The resource needs to be used profitably.
4. The country must have the technology to use the resource.
Which of the following are NOT resources in Saskatchewan?
1. Potash
2. Uranium
3. Trees
4. Coal
5. Water
6. Fish
7. Gold
8. Salt
9. Oil
10. Soil
11. Nickle
Which resource doesn't Canada import
1. Grapes
2. Clothes
3. Wheat
4. Honda Cars
What does CWB stand for?
1. Canadian Work Band
2. Canadian Wheat Board
3. Celebrate Washington Bands
4. Canada Winning Books
What is a "bumper Crop?"
1. A crop of wheat.
2. A crop that is of poor quality.
3. A wheat crop with high protien.
4. A crop that yields are average and above average.
Approxiamtely how big is an acre?
1. One football field.
2. An ice hockey surfcace.
3. A football field with the end zones removed.
4. Two soccer fields.
Farmers in each of the prairie provinces have decided that they need to establish their own system to market wheat. The farmers decide to market wheat centrally through their own ____________.
1. Saskatchewan Wheat Pool
2. Wild Oat Grain Complany
3. Canadian Wheat Board
4. United Grain Growers Company
Saskatchewan Wheat Pool is ...
1. a crown corporation
  controlled by farmers
2. an agribusiness cooperative
3. a department of the Saskatchewan government
4. a religious organization.
Saskatchewan Wheat Pool is involved in ...
1. grain handling
2. selling farm supplies
3. the donut business
4. all of the above.
A grouping of resources for the common advantage of the participants
1. Pool
2. Cooperative
3. Assembly
4. Scarcity
A decline in the quality of the soil due to erosion.
1. Weathering
2. Erosion
3. Degradation
4. Dependancy
The reliance of humans on their resources to meet needs and wants.
1. Scarcity
2. Dependancy
3. Independancy
4. Dispersal
The party that has the 2nd most members in parliment is called...
1. the party in power.
2. the leading opposition.
3. the federal opposition.
4. the official opposition.
What is resource managment?
1. Selling resources for a profit
2. Making sure that resources are used fairly and responsibily.
3. Buying resources that are needed.
4. Making a resource into a good.
Regions divided based on the type of soil found there is called...
1. Soil Regions
2. Dark Brown Zones
3. Dark brown, brown, gray wooded and black soils.
4. Soil Zones
An insufficient supply of something.
1. Scarcity
2. Quantity
3. Quality
4. Quarintined
A decline in the quality of the soil due to erosion.
1. Erosion
2. Degradation
3. Cultivation
4. Fallow
Why didn't Native North Americans accept Eropean settlers?
1. Aboriginals believe that the land could not be bought and sold. Everyone was to live in harmony with the environment.
2. European settlers made a mockery of their culture.
3. European settlers used money to purchase things. Money was useless to Native North Americains.
4. Aboriginals had already laid claim to the land and were not selling it.