GEO 350 Lecture 11: 11. US & Canada Economic Geography
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More people you have, more resources you use. Different countries use diff amounts of resources. Us & canada have lots of: forest resources (timber) 18% of us land is arable land: good for producing crops. Lots of resources to use-- even though we import lots of additional ones. Us & canada have highly developed infrastructures that include: Modern road systems: interstates, freeways, bridges, tunnels. Ex. of tunnel: from detroit to windsor. Since wwii, us had lots of technological advances. Helped us become largest/most technologically powerful country in world. Fishing taken over by norwegian and japanese. Goods: > of us exports (. 4 trillion) Capital goods: of exported goods ( billion). Industrial supplies: of us exports ( billion) Consumer goods: 13% of us exports ( billion) Automobiles: 10 % of us exports ( billion) Goods: > 80% of us imports (. 2 trillion) Industrial machinery/equipment: < of us imports ( billion) Oil & petroleum: largest subcategory ( billion)
