Natural Resources and Patterns What do we do with resources, and how does it affect us? WG.12.A...

Natural Resources and Patterns What do we do with resources,

and how does it affect us? WG.12.A analyze how the creation, distribution, and management of key natural resources affects the location and patterns of movement of products, money, and people

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Which words are you familiar with, and which do you not yet know?

Creation Distribution Management

Natural Resources

Patterns Movement

Product Labor Trade

What resources are being created here?

• Food? Minerals? Energy?

Mungbeans being harvested in Somalia

What resources are being created here?

• Food? Minerals? Energy? Peasant harvesting a rice paddy with a buffalo,

Yangshuo, Guangxi, China.

What resources are being created here?

• Food? Minerals? Energy? South Africa gold mining field. JOHANNESBURG -

South Africa's Gold

What resources are being created here?

• Food? Minerals? Energy? Trends in Renewable Energy Production and

Consumption in the USA

How will our desire to create resources affect settlement?

• If the jobs are in the purple, then where are the resources being created?

Let’s see what we know…

Which are you ready to answer, and which do you need a peek?

Copper and nitrate mining are responsible for a concentration of population in which of the following?

A northern Chile

B southern Chile

C southern Argentina

D northern Ecuador

Intensive agriculture assumes heavy human labor and double cropping. Where would this likely be found in China?

A rice paddies

B wheat fields

C citrus orchards

D soybean fields

What impacts distribution of resources?

• Resources being shipped to a “buyer” nation.

What impacts distribution of resources?

• Transatlantic Slave Trade.

What impacts distribution of resources?

What impacts distribution of resources?

Australia’s Top Ten Two Way Trading PartnersChina

Japan

United States

Singapore

United Kingdom

Republic of Korea

New Zealand

Thailand

Germany

Malaysia

Australia’s Top Ten Commodities for TradeCoal

Iron Ore

Education

Gold

Personal Travel

Crude Petroleum

Professional, technical labor

Aluminum Ores

Natural Gas

Aluminum

Let’s see what we know…

Which are you ready to answer, and which do you need a peek?Currently Australia’s largest trading partners are all of the following except —F U.S.G United KingdomH JapanJ Brazil

All of the following would have been developed by the British in South Asia to enhance trade in the 17th and 18th centuries EXCEPT:F railroadsG portsH roadsJ airports

What should be considered in managing resources??

Let’s see what we know…

Are you ready to answer, and which do you need a peek?

5 How has the international management of whaling influenced the economic patterns of Japan? A Japan has halted whaling efforts.B Japan has closed many gourmet and specialty restaurants.C The United States has banned Japanese fishing in U.S. waters.D The United States has lowered the quota for the numbers of whales Japan may catch.

I strongly recommend that the President immediately inform Japan that it will not be eligible for fish that may become available for harvest by foreign vessels in U.S. waters.

—U.S. Secretary of Commerce Norman Mineta,White House press conference, September 13, 2000

Talk to each other, and then talk to me…

• WG.12.A Analyze how the creation, distribution, and management of key natural resources affects the location and patterns of movement of products, money, and people

• What do we do with resources, and how does it affect us?

• Use the word wall words to answer.

Resources• www.neok12.com/Natural-Resources.htm

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• www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.php? Where did that pencil come from? The Study of Natural Resources ... includes a lesson plan and student version

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