Mineral Resources and Fossil Fuels
Guided Reading, Questions, and Vocabulary
Your teacher may chose to have you examine the issues that surround the familiar question of 'Paper or Plastic?' This question has ecological and economic ramifications. This is problem based learning activity. Your teacher will give you additional information as needed.
Paper or Plastic...a thoughtful question
Section 11.1
Go to posted classwork.
__Please read pages 195-197.
__Vocabulary List:
nonrenewable resources (p. 195) renewable resources (p. 195)
ores (p. 195) veins (p. 195)
lode (p. 195) placer deposits (p. 196)
gemstones (p. 196)
__Objectives for pages 195-197:
__1. Explain what ores are and how they form.
__2. Discuss the wide variety of uses for mineral resources.
__Please answer Class Questions.
Click on the Burning Coal picture for information about fossil fuel.
Guided Reading, Questions, and Vocabulary
Section 11.2
__Please read pages 198-201.
__Vocabulary:
(Click on an underlined word to hear it spoken)
fossil fuels (p. 198) carbonization (p. 198) peat (p. 198)
lignite (p. 199) bituminous coal (p. 199) anthracite (p. 199)
petroleum (p. 199) natural gas (p. 199) permeable rock (p. 199)
cap rock (p. 200) crude oil (p. 200) petrochemical (p. 200)
__Objectives for pages 198-201:
__1. Describe four ways in whcih entire organisms can be preserved as fossils.
__2. List four examples of fossilized traces of organsims.
__3. Describe how index fossils can be used to determine the relative age of rocks.
__Please answer Class Questions.
Objectives for pages 198-201:
1. Explain why coal is a fossil fuel.
2. Describe how petroleum and natural gas ar formed and how they are removed from the earth.
3. Discuss the importance of fossil fuels as a source of energy and of petrochemical products.
4. Describe some of the effects that the use of fossil fuels has on the environment.
Practice Test as assigned by your teacher.
Please note that not all classwork used in class can be posted.
Mineral Resources and Fossil Fuels Glossary
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