Geography 2011A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Gypsum, Platinum Group, Northern Ontario
3 Oct 2016
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Levels of economic activity: primary: extraction of raw materials. Basic/ first thing we ever do: secondary: conversion to product. Building stuff: tertiary: provision of services. Providing services: quaternary: collection, processing, and distribution of information. Between the great lakes (connection of great lakes) Local consumption increased as population grew: current ontario. Ontario leads canada in total $ value of farm produce. Of canada"s 229, 272 farms in 2006. First in the total number of farms in canada. 9. 0 million acres of cropland in ontario in 2006. Probably gone down (based on urban sprawl: risk of economic disaster. Farming issues: too much rain, or not enough rain, pests, fire, demand for the product: subsidies and tariffs. Some things aren"t within our control (taxes: environmental change. Climate change (changes where you can grow: over 200 commodities, more diverse than most parts of the world. Ontario makes 22. 1% just about the same as saskatchewan: changes in landscape/environment. Changes the shapes of rivers and lakes.
