Unit 5 Review

Deposits of minerals from which metals and nonmetals can be removed profitably.

• Ore
• Conduction
• Placer Deposits
• Wire

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What is another term for a quarry?

• open pit
• longwall
• pillar
• solution mine

The _____ sets standards to minimize the surface effects of coal mining on the environment.

• Clean Water Act
• Comprehensive Response Compensation and Liability Act (1980)
• Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977
• Safe Drinking Water Act

Which of the following is NOT environmental impacts of mining?

• Destroys natural communities over large areas.
• Acid drainage pollutes groundwater.
• Creates minimal dust.
• Mass wasting is common when overburden is loosened.

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 Which type of mining is associated with disturbing the most land?

• Surface mining 
• Sub-surface mining

• Mining in the Oceans

• Borehole Mining

Sustainable mineral use and longer lifetimes for scarce minerals can be achieved with all of the following EXCEPT...

• Recycling
• Increasing demand and lowering prices for products using these minerals.
• Exploring for new resources

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Deep deposits of minerals being removed from underground though tunnels and shafts is the definition of: 

• Strip Mining 
• Mountaintop Removal 
• Subsurface Mining 
• Surface Mining 

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A natural resource that can be replaced by nature in a short period of time.

• Renewable Resource

• Nonrenewable Resource

This type of mining does less damage to the environment.

• surface mining

• subsurface mining.

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The controversial method for getting natural gas and oil from rocks deep underground is called...

• fracking.

• rigging.

• contouring.

• derricks.

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