C - Impacts Of Extracting Metals

Question 1

Metal extraction can be especially bad for the…

Answer 1

Environment

Question 2

What are disadvantages (at least 2) of extracting metals?

Answer 2

• Deep mine shafts can be dangerous for a long time after being abandoned
• Noise and dust pollution
• Destroys habitats
• The metal needs to be transported away from the mine shaft which causes more noise and pollution
• Lots of energy, lots of money

Question 3

What are the advantages of extracting metals? (2)

Answer 3

• It’s useful - it provides things that people want

* Provides jobs for people and brings more money to the local economy

Question 4

Give 3 reasons why it’s important that we recycle metal…

Answer 4

• Mining and extracting metals takes a lot of energy and it’s expensive
• Fossil fuels used to extract are running out so it’s important we conserve them
• Recycling metals only uses a small fraction of the energy needed to mine and extract new metal
• There’s a finite amount of each metal in the earth, we need to conserve them
• Cuts down landfill