Reading - BFG
Sophie is snatched by the BFG at this specific time he calls “the witching hour.”
What is 3 a.m.?
A deep, vertical tunnel used to lower miners and equipment and to lift ore.
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"Are you gonna read Snapchat Diaries, my favorite book?" Avery asked.
During its years of operation, this was the primary mineral mined here that gave Butte its nickname “The Richest Hill on Earth.”
What is copper?
Superfund is the short name for this act, passed by Congress in 1980.
What is the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA)?
Sophie believes she saw the BFG because she was doing this when the street was silent and empty.
What is looking out her window when she couldn’t sleep?
The process of using heat to extract a metal from its ore.
What is smelting?
Ryan said, "Your team isn't going to win any games this year, and it's because you don't practice."
This component of the mine disaster involved miners building a barricade underground to escape smoke and poisonous gas.
What is a bulkhead?
Superfund gets its name from this financial resource created when the law was passed.
What is a large cleanup trust fund?
The BFG says Sophie cannot return to the orphanage because she might do this, putting him at risk.
What is tell someone about him?
The waste materials left over after the valuable minerals have been separated from the ore
What are tailings?
them kids is louder than a herd of elephants
Those kids are louder than a herd of elephants.
The mine’s ventilation system created this unintended effect during the fire, which helped spread smoke like a blacksmith’s forge.
What is fan-driven airflow?
Superfund is known as this type of law because the EPA first tries to require companies responsible for contamination to pay for cleanup.
What is an “enforcement first” law?
According to the BFG, dreams come from this magical place where they float like shimmering creatures.
What is Dream Country?
The process of searching for valuable mineral deposits
What is exploration?
"I've never been to a big city before," Angela said.
The disaster triggered this massive labor action, in which about 15,000 miners did this.
What is went on strike?
Contaminated areas that qualify for federal cleanup are added to this national list.
What is the National Priorities List?
Before putting dreams into jars, the BFG does this with each jar until it shines.
What is clean and polish them?
A natural accumulation of a mineral or ore.
What is a deposit?
they was supposed to meet us said parker but they never showed up
"They were supposed to meet us," said Parker, "But they never showed up."
This mine, whose parent mine is Granite Mountain, was involved in the deadly 1917 disaster.
What is the Speculator Mine?
Large contaminated sites are divided into these smaller sections to make cleanup easier.
What are operable units?