Energy and resources

A natural materials whose concentration of economically valuable minerals is high enough for the materials to be mined profitably

• Ores

• minerals

• oil

Subsurface mining techniques are used for mineral deposits

• close to Earth’s surface.

• in the oceans.

• in stream beds.

• below Earth’s surface

A type of mining where minerals are found in nodules, or lumps on the ocean floor. These are the most difficult to mine

• undersea mining

• surface mining

• sub surface mining

• placer mining

Which of the following is a type of mining?

• Table mining

• Placer mining

• Water mining

• Dirt mining

Quartz can be found in clocks?

• True

• False

Bauxite is typically strip mined.

• True

• False

A substance that can be obtained through underground mining is

• coal.

• petroleum

• gold

• oil shale

What are three uses of minerals

• Jewelry, Medicine and Steel

• Jewelry , clothing and makeup

Ores form by ______, _____, and ______.

• cooling magma, contact metamorphism, moving water.

• moving water, regional metamorphism and cooling larva

• cooling larva, moving water and contact metamorphism

When the overlying rock material is stripped away to reveal mineral deposits this is ______ mining.

• placer mining

• underground mining

• sub surface mining

• surface mining