Sounds like...
A common chickpea dip sounds like this component of soil.
What is hummus and humus?
Day off in Kyoto
Got bored at the UN
Looked around at the 7-Eleven
The countries took the speed train
Went to lower emissions
the USA wanted to go, but didn't
What is the Kyoto Protocol?
The continuous movement of water on, above, and below the Earth’s surface.
What is the water cycle?
The apparent curvature of objects (like air currents, ocean currents, or planes) traveling long distances over Earth's surface, caused by the planet's rotation
What is the Coriolis effect?
This is a commercially valuable deposits of concentrated minerals that can be harvested and used as raw materials
What is ore?
A petroleum based ointment sounds like this groundwater reservoir
What is Aquifer and Aquaphor?
I'm looking like water on the walls of a mine
The most heavy metals I've ever had
But drink me and you might drop dead
What is acid mine drainage?
The process of water changing from liquid to gas.
What is evaporation?
The layer beneath the lithosphere that allows plates to move.
What is the asthenosphere?
Leftover waste material separated from the valuable metal or mineral within ore
What are tailings?
This measurement of sunlight absorption sounds like the type of swimsuit an Olympic swimmer might wear.
What is albedo and speedo?
Pressure
Pushing down on lignite
Pressing down on anthracite
A kind of fossil fuel
What is coal?
The process where water vapor cools and forms liquid droplets in the atmosphere.
What is condensation?
DAILY DOUBLE
What is a gyre?
Soil, vegetation, & rocks that are removed to get to an ore deposit below
What is overburden?
This method of fishing sounds like a common type of ragebait
What is trawling and trolling?
You're so gorges
You can see this structure from space
'Cause look at its concrete base
What is The Three Gorges Dam?
When water moves from plants to the atmosphere.
What is transpiration?
Relating to or living or located on the bank of a natural watercourse (such as a river)
What is riparian?
This type of mining is used when resource is close to the surface but extends beneath the surface horizontally and vertically
What is open-pit mining?
This soil texture sounds like a smooth fabric.
What is silt and silk?
I never meant to cause aluminum leaching
I never meant to cause a lower pH
I only wanted, one time, to react with NOx
I only want to react with SOx
In the ____ ______
What is acid rain?
The main energy source driving the water cycle.
What is the sun?
The most commonly used coal but has high sulfur content.
What is bituminous?
It is the process of looking for metals and precious stones in river sediments.
What is placer mining?