Vocabulary
Digging very deep holes
What is open pit mining?
The Himalayan mountains are the result of a ___________________________ boundary.
What is convergent boundary
Mining of minerals that uses explosives
What is mountaintop mining?
When land collapses above mines or aquifers it is called
What is subsidence?
Waster rock left after ore is removed
What is tailings?
Plates float on top of the _______________________.
What is the asthenosphere
The life cycle of minerals
What is extraction, processing, manufacturing a product, and disposal and recycling of wastes
What and where are earthquakes caused
What is stress at fault lines?
Created the Continental Drift Theory
Who is Alfred Wegener
Use of bacteria to remove ore from rocks
What is biomining?
The rigid part of the Earth including the crust and the upper mantle (makes up the plates of the Earth)
What is the lithosphere
The use of deep shafts in the ground to remove minerals
What is subsurface mining?
This is the mechanism (what causes) the plates to move
What is convection cycles in the mantle
Name the five geological hazards on Earth
What is volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis, erosion, and landslides?
Although the hottest layer of the Earth, this layer is solid metal
What is the inner core
The Earth's crust is thinnest under the _____________________ and thickest under the _____________________.
What is thinnest under the ocean and thickest under the continents.
Draw the 6 types of mining correctly adding categories and subcategories as well.
A. Surface mining
i. Open-pit mining
ii. Strip mining
*Contour strip mining and Mountaintop mining
B. Subsurface mining
The two types of convergent boundaries
What is subduction (where volcanoes often occur) and collision (where mountains are usually formed)
What are the types of rocks and how are the made?
What is sedimentary (compaction and cementation), igneous (cooled magma and lava), and metamorphic (high pressure and temperature)?