GEOG 162 Lecture 8: GEOG 162 Chapter 8
19 Apr 2016
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Increasing demand for natural resources, including oil, potash, and canola. Controversies regarding oil sands and pipeline transport. Geographic challenges: dry continental climate and continental position. Trade with us, pacific rim countries, and european union. Resources are a dominant theme in this region, along with agriculture, geographic challenges, and trade. This region covers approximately 20% of canada"s land mass, produces approx. Canada"s gdp, and has just over 17% of the country"s population. French to be their mother tongue; those who do liver primarily in manitoba. Canadians are 6. 4% of the total for canada. Saskatchewan has the greatest amount of farm area, followed closely by alberta. Manitoba has the least, which is not quite a third of that which saskatchewan has. Saskatchewan has almost 40% of canada"s total farm area. Challenges of interior location: dry continental climate makes farming risky o. Current fortune ties to non-renewable resources; renewable resources present opportunity for sustainable economy.
