Geo Resources And Industry

Geo Notes On The Resources And Industry Unit

R/P Ratio

R/P Ratio

Resource taken from ground/yearly

Reserve

How much of a resource is available

Production

Amount of a resource taken from ground yearly

Oil Sands/Tar Sands

Deposits of sand with a heavy form of oil (Bitumen)

Fracking

A variety of techniques used to break up shale layers far below the surface to get natural and/or oil (Uses a mixture of water sand and chemicals)

Metallic Mineral

A mineral that yields metal when melted

Non-Metallic Mineral

A mineral that does not change form when melted

Ore Mineral Reserve

The parts of a Mineral Resource that can at present be economically mined

Ore

A rock that contains enough metallic mineral to make mining profitable

Ore

A rock that contains enough metallic mineral to make mining profitable

Stores

A supply or quantity of something

Flows

Replaced by actions and lost when not used

Drainage basin

An area of land where water from rain or snow melt drains downhill into a body of water such as a river, lake, wetland or ocean

Groundwater

Water found underneath the surface of the ground (Under the first layer of dirt)

Aridity index

Quantitative indicators of the degree of water deficiency present at a given location

Potential evapotranspiration

The combined loss of water through, the plant's process of transpiration via its vascular system, and evaporation of water from the earth's surface

Extraction

Removing something from an area, place, thing or other. The act of removing something

Consumption

To use something up

Bulk water exports

Exporting fresh water from one country to another

Basic job

Brings money to economy

Non-basic

Circulates money in economy

Quaternary

Intellectual activities: government, culture, libraries, scientific research, education, information technology

Quinary

Highest level of decision making in an economy: top executives and decision makers in large organizations