- Resources are anything that can be used
- Renewable resources are resources that can be used more than one while non-renewable resources can only be used once
- They can become non renewable by over-exploitation
- Soil is valuable because it allows people to grow things and build things for use
- Silviculture is the practice of controlling the establishment, growth, composition, health, and quality of forests to meet diverse needs and values of the many landowners, societies and cultures.
- 164.4 million hectares
- $2 Billion
- that they only allow a certain amount of it in weight to be fished e.g. 5265 tonnes of southern blue fin tuna a year
- Uranium, Coal
- Because more seams of minerals are being discovered
- Australia is no where near covered in forests only 21% and we only export <1% of our exports our wood compared to 38% japan so we have nearly nothing in forests and we export nothing in Wood
- Uranium is a valuable resource because 1 tonne of Uranium creates as much energy as 120000 tonnes of coal
- Because they preserve some sites for future generations.
- The Uranium mining scars the land for the uranium which is irreversible.
- Australia fishing lands extends all around Australia
- a) Australia's uranium reserves are more in the Northern Territory and Western Australia B) Radium Hill c) Ranger
- CountryAmount Uranium Tonnes% world totalAustralia1 074 00030Kazakhstan622 00017Canada439 00012South Africa298 0008Namibia213 0006Russian Federation158 0004Brazil143 0004United States102 0003Uzbekistan93 0003World total3 622 000100
- a) i) $300 Mill ii) $180 Mill iii) $550 Million B) $392.4 Million C) It was extremely expensive then dropped allot then it rose quite a bit
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