Mining
Minerals, Oil, Gas Coal
What Resources can be gained from Mining?
Igneous, Metamorphic, Sedimentary
What are the three types of Rocks?
This is the largest animal on Earth.
What is the blue whale?
This sport uses a bat, ball and wickets.
What is cricket?
This is the star at the centre of our Solar System.
What is the Sun?
Exploration, Development, Extraction, Processing and Rehabilitation
What are the 5 steps of the mining process?
These are the two main types of metamorphism, caused by different forces acting on rocks.
What are heat and pressure?
This is the fastest land animal, capable of reaching speeds of around 100 km/h.
What is a cheetah?
This sport is played at Wimbledon, the Australian Open, the French Open and the US Open.
What is tennis?
If an earthquake occurs under the ocean and moves a large amount of water, this can be produced.
What is a tsunami?
Mined Minerals are separated from one another using crushers or mills.
What is Processing in Mining?
The Transportation of sediments that have been broken down by weathering.
This small dog breed is famous for its tiny size and is named after a Mexican state.
What is a Chihuahua?
The crows are playing this team in their semi-final match on the weekend.
Who are the Brisbane Lions?
This layer of Earth is the thin, solid outer layer that we live on.
What is the crust?
Water Management, Soil Restoration, Revegetation
What strategies can be used in Rehabilitation?
Dropping off of sediments that have been weathered and eroded.
What is Deposition?
This animal has three hearts and blue blood.
What is an octopus?
This Olympic sport involves athletes sliding stones across ice towards a target.
What is curling?
This scale is commonly used to describe the magnitude of an earthquake based on the energy released.
What is the Richter scale?
Heat and Chemicals are used to melt and separate metals from oxygen
What is Smelting?
This rock type can be changed into either of the other two rock types through processes such as melting, cooling, weathering, erosion, deposition, heat and pressure.
What is a metamorphic rock?
This is the only mammal known to produce venom that is delivered through specialised structures on its hind legs.
What is the male platypus?
In swimming, this stroke is the only one where competitors start in the water rather than from a starting block.
What is backstroke?
This is the only layer of Earth that is completely liquid and its movement helps generate Earth's magnetic field.
What is the outer core?