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WorksheetsEnvironments damaged by collection of raw materials
Total questions: 26
Worksheet time: 14mins
The collection of raw materials is part of the ...
primary industry
secondary industry
tertiary industry
The dirty and noise caused by a quarry can damage to..
Landscape, people
Wildlife and people
Landscape
None
Buildings and spoil heaps look ugly damaging the...
Landscape
Wildlife
People
When the quarry is being build who will run away frightened with the explosions?
Wildlife
Humans
Landscape
Heavy lorries casing traffic congestion will affect to...
wildlife
Landscape and people
People
The first improvement in a town to help transportation of the raw materials in a quarry are better local roads. This action helps to....
Wildlife
People
Landscape
Primary industries can attract other work industries such us...
Tertiary industry
Secondary industry
All the other types of industries
Quaternary industry
Why people should keep distance from the quarry?
Because of noise pollution
Because the machinery can be dangerous for people
The use of explosions to get the material is done under a strict process with security for the workers.
Explosions and machinery can be harmful for people without security
When a quarry closes the damage to the landscape can cause a hole,
of 20 meters deep
of 50 meters deep
the deepness will depend on the types of raw material that will be extracted. Between 30 and 50 mts deep
of 30 meters deep
Why a whole left from a quarry can be dangerous?
Rainy season can flood the hole and the deepness can be dangerous
The hole can bring moist and this can be contaminated
People can use the hole as a pool when is flooded
Water in the hole after a rainy day can be contaminated and the deepness is another problem.
How can a quarry be restored after the collection of raw materials? (choose more than one)
Planting trees
Reducing the steep slope by moving the soil
Creating a shallow lake
Using the material to sell it
Using the land to keep looking for new minerals
The collection of natural resources can harm the (a) and affect people and wildlife
The reason for quarry industries missing the attempts to improve damaged landscapes is...
the amount of money to invest
the time invested
the time and money invested
To make products, industries require?
Raw materials
Energy
Specialized Equipment
All of the them
What type of mine?
Room-and-pillar
Longwall
Quarry
Solution
Open pit
Marble, limestone and other building stones
Room-and-pillar
Longwall
Quarry
Solution
Open pit
Where is a quarry?
underground
on the surface
Workers use diggers and _______ to break up rocks
explosives
cars
stones
When the quarry makes noise that disturbs the locals and the wildlife it is called
earsore
noise pollution
noise destruction
eyesore
Primary industry is also known as extractive industries
True
False
Which of the following is not a characteristic of minerals?
They are created by natural processes
They have a definite chemical composition
They are inexhaustible
Their distribution is uneven
Minerals can be extracted by _____________.
Mining
Quarrying
Drilling
All of these
Graphite used in pencil is also a (a) .
Name any three common minerals used by you every day.
(a)
The process of taking out minerals from rocks buried under the surface of the earth is named as
mining
sleeping
digging
none of these
Minerals that lie near the surface of eart are dug out by a process called
(a)
