![Social/Humanities 10-2<br />Chapter 14 Text Questions<br />Chapter Issue: “To what extent does Globalization affect the Environment?”<br />Part A Vocabulary: Respond to the following phrases in a way that you’ll be able to remember and understand:<br />1. Consumerism<br />2. Ethics<br />3. Surface Mining<br />4. Sustainable Development<br />5. Clear-Cutting<br />6. Selective – Cutting<br />7. Sustainable Development<br />Part B: Short Answers. Respond to the following with well thought out complete answers in order to create understanding on the topic:<br />Consider the Oil Sands project at Fort McMurray Alberta. Use the following basic statements regarding this project to develop an understanding for this major Alberta Industry:<br />- The oil sands project creates specialized employment for many people in western Canada because of its primary resource of oil extraction (people working directly on the oil sands project as employees for Suncore and Syncrude).<br />-The oil sands project creates many jobs in the Fort McMurray region because of spin off in related specialized fields as a secondary resource (people who work as contractors in the oil and gas industry are employed on this project building plants, fixing, maintaining or producing products).<br />- The oil sands project creates many jobs in the region because of job spin-off in tertiary industry (stores, hotels, restaurants, etc…)<br />,[object Object]](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/social14textwork-100302104007-phpapp02/85/Social-14text-Work-1-320.jpg)
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- 2. The oil sands project disturbs the land and ecosystems around the project as great amounts of land are excavated in order to extract oil.
- 3. People who support the oil sands project agree that this project is responsible for developing a great deal of prosperity for Alberta
- 4. People who do not support the oil sands project feel that this project harms our environment and ecosystem more than the financial benefit it brings to our province1. Specifically, what countries are involved in the investment of the oil sands project?<br />2. Approximately how much foreign investment money has been invested in the oil sands project? What is the expected foreign investment projected to be by 2020?<br />3. Refer to the top of page 238; why do you think oil sands production and investment was at an all time high 5 or 6 years ago, but recently production and investment has slowed?<br />4. Why might an environmentalist argue that the extraction of lands for oil sands production is bad for long term environmental sustainability?<br />5. How might the disruption of peat lands near the project cause a future environmental concern for Albertans (pg239)?<br />6. How does the oil sands project create huge spin-off for the Alberta and Canadian Economy?<br />7. What is sustainable development? When discussing the oil sands project, why is it crucial to try and create a situation of sustainable development? What do you think will happen if sustainable development cannot be achieved in this project?<br />8. In your opinion, why does there need to be a tradeoff between economic development and environmental management?<br />Paragraph Response:<br />On a separate piece of paper respond to the following question in a well thought out, well written paragraph. Be sure to use specific information from this chapter to help form your answer. When your response is completed, attach it to the vocab/question sheet and hand in for marks:<br />“To what extent does Globalization impact the environment?”<br />Thought and supporting details/5<br />