Impacts of extracting metals

Question 1

What 3 effects do you have to balance when mining ores?

Answer 1

Social, Economic and Environmental

Question 2

What are the advantages of mining metal ores?

Answer 2

1) Useful products can be made
2) Provides local people with jobs
3) Brings money into the area - services (Transport and health) can be improved.

Question 3

What are disadvantages of mining metal ores?

Answer 3

Bad for the environment - causes noise, scarring on the landscape and loss of habitats
Deep mine shafts can also be dangerous for a long time after the mine has been abandoned.

Question 4

Mining and extracting metals takes a lot of [ ] most of which comes from [ ].

Answer 4

Energy

Burning fossil fuels

Question 5

Fossil fuels are running out, so its important to [ ] them. Not only this, but burning them contributes to [ ], [ ] dimming and [ ] change.

Answer 5

Conserve
Acid rain
Global
Climate

Question 6

Why is recycling better than extracting metals?

Answer 6

Uses a lot less energy. (Recycling copper only takes 15% of the energy of extracting copper)
Also saves money as a result

Question 7

There’s a [ ] amount of each metal in the earth. Recycling [ ] these resources.

Answer 7

finite

conserves

Question 8

Why is recycling good? (Landfill)

Answer 8

Recycling metals cuts down the amount of rubbish that gets sent to landfill. Landfill takes up space and pollutes the surroundings.