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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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YSLETA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT
SOCIAL STUDIES INSTRUCTIONAL TEAM
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 Partners
Australia’s Top Ten
Commodities for Trade
China
Coal
Japan
Iron Ore
United States
Education
Singapore
Gold
United Kingdom
Personal Travel
Republic of Korea
Crude Petroleum
New Zealand
Professional, technical labor
Thailand
Aluminum Ores
Germany
Natural Gas
Malaysia
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 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
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?
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
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.
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
Educational Videos, Quizzes and Games for
Kids in Kindergarten, Elementary ...
• www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.php? Where
did that pencil come from? The Study of Natural
Resources ... includes a lesson plan and
student version
• http://science.hq.nasa.gov/kids/earth.html 5E
Lessons
• http://science.hq.nasa.gov/kids/earth.html
• www.nrdc.com