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Environments damaged by collection of raw materials

Total questions: 26

Worksheet time: 14mins

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Class
Date
1.

The collection of raw materials is part of the ...

a)

primary industry

b)

secondary industry

c)

tertiary industry

2.

The dirty and noise caused by a quarry can damage to..

a)

Landscape, people

b)

Wildlife and people

c)

Landscape

d)

None

3.

Buildings and spoil heaps look ugly damaging the...

a)

Landscape

b)

Wildlife

c)

People

4.

When the quarry is being build who will run away frightened with the explosions?

a)

Wildlife

b)

Humans

c)

Landscape

5.

Heavy lorries casing traffic congestion will affect to...

a)

wildlife

b)

Landscape and people

c)

People

6.

The first improvement in a town to help transportation of the raw materials in a quarry are better local roads. This action helps to....

a)

Wildlife

b)

People

c)

Landscape

7.

Primary industries can attract other work industries such us...

a)

Tertiary industry

b)

Secondary industry

c)

All the other types of industries

d)

Quaternary industry

8.

Why people should keep distance from the quarry?

a)

Because of noise pollution

b)

Because the machinery can be dangerous for people

c)

The use of explosions to get the material is done under a strict process with security for the workers.

d)

Explosions and machinery can be harmful for people without security

9.

When a quarry closes the damage to the landscape can cause a hole,

a)

of 20 meters deep

b)

of 50 meters deep

c)

the deepness will depend on the types of raw material that will be extracted. Between 30 and 50 mts deep

d)

of 30 meters deep

10.

Why a whole left from a quarry can be dangerous?

a)

Rainy season can flood the hole and the deepness can be dangerous

b)

The hole can bring moist and this can be contaminated

c)

People can use the hole as a pool when is flooded

d)

Water in the hole after a rainy day can be contaminated and the deepness is another problem.

11.

How can a quarry be restored after the collection of raw materials? (choose more than one)

a)

Planting trees

b)

Reducing the steep slope by moving the soil

c)

Creating a shallow lake

d)

Using the material to sell it

e)

Using the land to keep looking for new minerals

12.

The collection of natural resources can harm the (a)   and affect people and wildlife

13.

The reason for quarry industries missing the attempts to improve damaged landscapes is...

a)

the amount of money to invest

b)

the time invested

c)

the time and money invested

14.

To make products, industries require?

a)

Raw materials

b)

Energy

c)

Specialized Equipment

d)

All of the them

15.

What type of mine?

a)

Room-and-pillar

b)

Longwall

c)

Quarry

d)

Solution

e)

Open pit

16.

Marble, limestone and other building stones

a)

Room-and-pillar

b)

Longwall

c)

Quarry

d)

Solution

e)

Open pit

17.

Where is a quarry?

a)

underground

b)

on the surface

18.

Workers use diggers and _______ to break up rocks

a)

explosives

b)

cars

c)

stones

19.

When the quarry makes noise that disturbs the locals and the wildlife it is called

a)

earsore

b)

noise pollution

c)

noise destruction

d)

eyesore

20.

Primary industry is also known as extractive industries

a)

True

b)

False

21.

Which of the following is not a characteristic of minerals?

a)

They are created by natural processes

b)

They have a definite chemical composition

c)

They are inexhaustible

d)

Their distribution is uneven

22.

Minerals can be extracted by _____________.

a)

Mining

b)

Quarrying

c)

Drilling

d)

All of these

23.

Graphite used in pencil is also a (a)   .

24.

Name any three common minerals used by you every day.

(a)  

25.

The process of taking out minerals from rocks buried under the surface of the earth is named as

a)

mining

b)

sleeping

c)

digging

d)

none of these

26.

Minerals that lie near the surface of eart are dug out by a process called

(a)