GEOL HW
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1. Identify the technologies that make the extraction of B. and C.
shale gas economically possible.
Choose one or more:
A. conventional drilling
B. directional drilling
C. hydrofracking
D. open-pit mining.
2. Metallic and nonmetallic mineral resources are consid- D.
ered nonrenewable because
Choose one:
A. reserves of mineral resources do not increase.
B. not every country has deposits of all the mineral
resources that it needs.
C. ore deposits are so rare.
D. natural processes make minerals much slower than
we can mine them.
3. Which of the following statements is TRUE? B.
Choose one:
A. Open pit mines are necessary when the ore is several
hundred meters deep.
B. Open pit miners shatter bedrock with explosives and
then transport waste rock to a tailings pile and ore to a
crusher.
C. Open pit mines are called adits.
D. Earth's deepest mine extends to 10 km (6 miles)
below the surface.
4. B. April
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Study online at https://quizlet.com/_425j6g
1. Identify the technologies that make the extraction of B. and C.
shale gas economically possible.
Choose one or more:
A. conventional drilling
B. directional drilling
C. hydrofracking
D. open-pit mining.
2. Metallic and nonmetallic mineral resources are consid- D.
ered nonrenewable because
Choose one:
A. reserves of mineral resources do not increase.
B. not every country has deposits of all the mineral
resources that it needs.
C. ore deposits are so rare.
D. natural processes make minerals much slower than
we can mine them.
3. Which of the following statements is TRUE? B.
Choose one:
A. Open pit mines are necessary when the ore is several
hundred meters deep.
B. Open pit miners shatter bedrock with explosives and
then transport waste rock to a tailings pile and ore to a
crusher.
C. Open pit mines are called adits.
D. Earth's deepest mine extends to 10 km (6 miles)
below the surface.
4. B. April
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