Exam 12: Geology and Nonrenewable Minerals

Match the items listed below with the appropriate description.​ Figure 12.3 ​ -On the figure of the earth's crust,choose the letter that represents the inner core.​

What is the international problem regarding mining on the ocean floor?​

The dirt wall left after contour mining is called an overburden.

What kind of subsidies can governments use to promote sustainable use of nonrenewable minerals?​

Draw a flow chart that explains the life cycle of a metal resource.

Increasing ____________________ for reuse,recycling,and finding substitutes is a way that governments can promote the sustainable use of nonrenewable minerals.

One of the environmental problems with gold mining is the leftover and sometimes leaky leach ponds that contain ____________________.

Tectonic plates move extremely slowly atop the asthenosphere.

Sand is composed mostly of ____ and is used to make glass,bricks,and concrete for the construction of roads and buildings.​

Match each rock with its type. -slate​

The ____ cycle is the slowest of Earth's processes.​

Experts are particularly concerned about the U.S.depletion and lack of national reserves of manganese,cobalt,chromium,and platinum because they are nonrenewable ____ resources.​

Forces inside the earth's mantle put tremendous stress on rock within the crust.Such stresses can be great enough to cause sudden breakage and shifting of the rock,producing ____ in the earth's crust.​

Nanotechnologists envision technological innovations such as a flexible solar cell films that could be attached to or painted onto almost any surface.

The location of plate boundaries is most helpful is predicting the ____.​

What rock is formed when shale and mudstone are heated?​

Under the rigid outer portion of the mantle is the ____________________,a zone of hot,partly melted flowing pliable rock.

​There exists a relatively complete network of buoys and pressure recorders for a global tsunami warning system.

A(n)____ contains a large enough concentration of a particular mineral to make it profitable for mining and processing.​

The amplitude or size of the seismic waves from an earthquake is measured by a recording instrument called a(n)____________________.