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Chapter 15 powerpoint

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Economic geology
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Nonrenewable Mineral Resource Extraction & Processing Chapter 15 Essential Question #1 What are nonrenewable mineral resources & how does the USGS classify them? Minerals & Mineral Resources Minerals An element or inorganic compound that occurs naturally and is solid with a regular crystalline structure Ex: Salt / Quartz / Diamond Mineral Resources A concentration of naturally occurring material in or on the earth?s crust that can be extracted & processed into useful materials at an affordable cost Ex: fossil fuels / metallic minerals / nonmetalic minerals Nonrenewable Mineral Resources Fossil Fuels Coal, Oil, Natural Gas Metallic Mineral Resources Aluminum, Steel, Iron, Copper Strategic metals: manganese, cobalt, chromium, platinum Nonmetallic Mineral Resources

AP Environmental Science Chapter 18 Questions and Answers

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Chapter 18 1. Know about the Asian Brown Cloud 2. Know the layers of the atmosphere and how they are divided 3. Where does weather occur? 4. Where do weather balloons go? 5. What are VOC?s? 6. How are VOC?s classified? 7. Where is photochemical smog likely to occur? 8. Who is vulnerable to air pollution? 9. What does formaldehyde cause? 10. What are the 4 most dangerous indoor air pollutants? 11. How do experts rate indoor air pollution? 12. What is sick building syndrome? 13. What is a temperature inversion? 14. What is gray air smog? 15. What is radon and how is it harmful? 16. What are national ambient air quality standards? 17. How has the combined emissions of the six major air pollutants decreased?
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