1. 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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2. Which words are you familiar with, and which do you not yet know?
Creation
Distribution
Management
Natural Resources
Patterns
Movement
Product
Labor
Trade

3. What resources are being created here?
Together, agriculture and livestock form the backbone of the Somali economy
Food? Minerals? Energy?
Mungbeans being harvested in Somalia

4. What resources are being created here?
Peasant harvesting a rice paddy with a buffalo, Yangshuo, Guangxi, China.
Food? Minerals? Energy?
Peasant harvesting a rice paddy with a buffalo, Yangshuo, Guangxi, China.

5. What resources are being created here?
South Africa gold mining field. JOHANNESBURG - South Africa's Gold
Food? Minerals? Energy?
South Africa gold mining field. JOHANNESBURG - South Africa's Gold

6. What resources are being created here?
Trends in Renewable Energy Production and Consumption in the USA
Food? Minerals? Energy?
Trends in Renewable Energy Production and Consumption in the USA

7. How will our desire to create resources affect settlement?
If the jobs are in the purple, then where are the resources being created?

8. 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

9. What impacts distribution of resources?
Resources being shipped to a “buyer” nation.

10. What impacts distribution of resources?
Transatlantic Slave Trade.

11. What impacts distribution of resources?

12. What impacts distribution of resources?
Australia’s Top Ten Two Way Trading Partners
China
Japan
United States
Singapore
United Kingdom
Republic of Korea
New Zealand
Thailand
Germany
Malaysia
Australia’s Top Ten Commodities for Trade
Coal
Iron Ore
Education
Gold
Personal Travel
Crude Petroleum
Professional, technical labor
Aluminum Ores
Natural Gas
Aluminum

13. 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 Kingdom
H Japan
J 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 railroads
G ports
H roads
J airports

14. What should be considered in managing resources??

15. 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

16. 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.

17. Resources
Educational Videos, Quizzes and Games for Kids in Kindergarten, Elementary ...
Where did that pencil come from? The Study of Natural Resources ... includes a lesson plan and student version
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