ES30: 5 - Earth's Economic Resources VOCAB

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Final product of uranium mills, often U3O8.

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Yellowcake

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Different, abnormal, or hard to classify things

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Anomalies

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A liquid with impurities removed by solvent extraction

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Raffinate

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Layers of earth and rock covering mined rock

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Overburden

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Energy in wave form from natural earthquakes or synthetic surveying methods

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Seismic Waves

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NGSS.MS-PS4-1

NGSS.MS-PS4-2

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Potassium chloride in natural mineral form

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sylvite

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

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Large deposit of coal

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Coal seam

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

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Rock cylinder removed during drilling

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drill core

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Variations in elevation

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topography

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

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Non-invasive investigation of subsurface conditions by analyzing physical fields at the surface.

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Geophysics