Canadian vocabulary

 a particular location or place in the world

• store

• location

• climate

• specialization

the average annual weather conditions in a particular place

• climate

• location

• natural resources

• weather

materials or substances such as minerals, forests, water, and fertile land that occur in nature and can be used for economic gain

• rivers

• currency

• natural resources

• location

the pattern of where people live

• population distribution

• economics

• climate

• GDP

the harmful aspects of human activity on the environment

• activists

• challenges

• environmental concerns

• solutions

toxic rain which results when noxious gases are released into the atmosphere and mix with water molecules; polluted rain

• wintery precipation

• acid rain

• desertification

• mining

presence of toxic chemicals or compounds in the air, at levels that pose a health risk

• draining

• Chernobyl

• air pollution

• overfishing

industry in Canadian Shield focused on mining deposits of gold, silver, zinc, lead, iron ore, uranium, and nickel; often results in harming the environment

• mining

• logging

• oil refining

• gardening

the process, work, or business of cutting down trees to produce timber and pulp

• seedlings

• forestry

• planting

• logging

cutting down and completely removing all trees in a given area

• rainforest

• clear-cutting

• tundra

• thinning out