The Earth Layers
The age of the Earth is closest to ____________ years.
What is 4.6 billion?
Through dead organisms, like dinosaurs.
Water beneath Earth's surface.
What is groundwater?
fewer resources available, more pollution, more food is needed, less groundwater, need more space
What is opaque?
When you cannot see through something.
What causes Earthquakes to happen?
The movement of plate tectonics
What is considered a non-renewable resources?
what is petroleum, copper, coal, aluminum, gold, silver, etc.
What is an open pit mine?
A mine that is out in the open and creates a big hole in the Earth.
What can humans do to help preserve Earth's natural resources?
Recycle, Reduce waste, Reuse items, develop new technologies to help eliminate the need for more resources.
What is transparent?
When you can see through something clearly
Rock Strata is
layers of sedimentary rock.
What makes a resource non-renewable?
What is - it takes a very, very long time to make, or it can't be remade.
What is an underground mine?
A mine that digs tunnels in the Earth to find resources. The miners are surrounded by Earth.
What is a non-renewable resource?
Something that cannot be replaced. Once it is used up , it is gone forever.
What does luster mean?
How shiny something is.
What is magma called when it hits the air?
Lava.
What did the chips represent in our chip lab?
What can mining do to groundwater?
it can cause pollution through acid mine drainage, heavy metal contamination, and depletion of aquifers, potentially leading to long-term environmental damage
What is a renewable resource?
A resource that can be replenished over time.
What were we extracting from the two metals in the metal extraction lab?
What rock layer was caused by volcanic eruptions?
Basalt
Which layer is the oldest in the layer of rock strata?
The bottom layer - or the one on the bottom.
What do converging plates cause to happen?
powerful earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, mountain formation, and deep ocean trenches
Why was there so much pollution caused by people in the past?
Because people didn't realize everything is connected.
Because they didn't pay attention.
Because they didn't want to pay to clean it up.
Because it didn't impact them, so they didn't care.
What were the two metals we used in the Metal extraction lab - where we used the strong acid?
Malachite ore and Iron powder