Chapter 15 Reading Guideline

 

Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the term.

 

Core Case Study:

1) What is nanotechnology?

2) Buckyballs

 

15.1 Geologic Processes

3) Core, mantle, crust

4) Divergent vs Convergent vs Transform Boundaries

 

15.2 Minerals, Rocks and the Rock Cycle

5) Minerals and mineral resources

6) Why are they nonrenewable?

7) Four categories of mineral resources

8) Rocks and rock cycle

 

15.3 Finding and Removing Nonrenewable Mineral Resources

9) Ore and grade

10) Surface vs subsurface mining

11) Types of Surface Mining

12) Mining Impacts

13) Ore and Gangue

14) Smelting and environmental effects

15) Cyanide and gold extraction

16) Summitville Gold Mine

 

15.4 Supplies of Mineral Resources

17) Economically Depleted and Options

18) Mineral kept Artificially Low

19) Lower Grade Ores

20) Ocean Mineral Deposits

 

15.5 Using Mineral Resources More Sustainably

21) Ceramics and Benefits

22) Recycling Metals

23) EcoIndustrial Revolution

24) You create an EcoIndustrial Approach…what could be created with the waste of another industry?

 

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