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Energy Resources and Consumption

Sources, Concepts and Conservation. Energy Resources and Consumption. Energy Concepts. Forms of Energy Mechanical: 2 types; mechanical potential (energy of position) and kinetic (energy of motion)

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Mineral Resources and Mining

Mineral Resources and Mining. Click here for current mine news, price forecasts. This is one of three employment centers for geologists, and it is presently enjoying a boom . The other boom employers are: The Petroleum Industry The Environmental Industry. Some definitions:.

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Chapter 15

Chapter 15. Nonrenewable Energy. Chapter Overview Questions. What are the advantages and disadvantages of conventional oil and nonconventional heavy oils? What are the advantages and disadvantages of natural gas?

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Interest Groups

Interest Groups. Interest Group An organization of people with shared policy goals entering the policy process at several points to try to achieve those goals. Interest groups pursue their goals in many arenas. Interest Groups. Interest groups are distinct from political parties.

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CHAPTER 23

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Chapter 4 Land and Soil Resources

Chapter 4 Land and Soil Resources. Section 1 Conserving Land and Soil. 3 uses that change the land are agriculture, development, and mining. Less than 1/3 of Earth can be farmed. New farmland must be created for the growing populations.

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Fossil Fuels Chapter 11.2

Fossil Fuels Chapter 11.2. Fossil Fuels. Fossil Fuels Fuel formed from the remains of living organisms, such as coal, petroleum, and natural gas. Fossil fuels consist primarily of compounds called hydrocarbons. Fossil Fuels. Hydrocarbons.

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Environmental Impacts of Mining

Environmental Impacts of Mining . Courtesy of Sarah Franchino. An Iraqi oil field where flares burn off flammable gases from oil wells and thick, black, crude oil pours from the ground. Peak Oil : the number and amount of new oil discoveries peaked in 1965 and has been declining since then. C.

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Distributed Computing Paradigms

Distributed Computing Paradigms. Bag of Tasks Heartbeat Algorithms Pipelining. Bag of Tasks. Basic idea Server maintains a list (bag) of tasks to be performed Clients send requests to server, receive a task, then may send back additional tasks to server Main advantage

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Chapter 16 Mineral Resources

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Mineral Resources and Mining

Mineral Resources and Mining. 13. CHAPTER. Talk About It Is it important to think about the sources of the minerals we use?. Mining for . . . Cell Phones?. Large reserves of the metal tantalum are found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in Africa.

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Fossil Fuels and Nuclear and Alternative Energy

Fossil Fuels and Nuclear and Alternative Energy Monroe 5-8-08 Fossil Fuels All fossil fuels are made of hydrogen and carbon, so they are called hydrocarbons . Fossil Fuels All fossil fuels are made of hydrogen and carbon, so they are called hydrocarbons . Coal~ Started out in swamps

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Impacts of coal mining

Impacts of coal mining. Easier to find than oil Coal is solid so it does not migrate like oil Easier to map A LOT of coal is still there to be mined. Strip mining or open pit mining.

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Strip Mining

Strip Mining. Soraya Sadeghi, Nicole Mehdian, Dami Kim. What is Strip Mining?. Strip mining is the mining of ore or coal from an open mine. Process of Strip Mining. Coal stacked up in layers in Earth. Strip miners blow up a portion of the Earth using bulldozers and dynamites.

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The tar sands areas in Canada are about the size of Florida.

The tar sands areas in Canada are about the size of Florida. First, forests must be cleared. In this case the trees were stacked and burned. Secondly, strip mining begins. Strip mines in the Canadian oil sands are the largest in the world. The small trucks are 4 ton service trucks.

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Uranium Mining

Uranium Mining. Three Main Types Strip Mining Tunnel Mining In-Situ Mining Texas: In-Situ Mining. What is In-Situ Mining?. A basic or acidic leaching solution is injected into the ground.

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Meat

Meat. Livestock or poultry consumed as food. Application: The second largest component of the human diet. Mesotrophic Lake. A lake with a moderate level of productivity Application: A classification of a lake based on its level of primary productivity. Metal.

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strip mining

strip mining. BY:JANELLE,EMMA ALYSSIA,DLANA AND NISHA ?. MINERALS THAT WERE FOUND USING STRIP MINING. Ore and coal were found with strip mining. THE EQUIPMENT AND MACHINERY . The equipment and machinery used are draglines , bulldozers. WHEN STRIP MINING WAS USED.

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