Unit 9 Reading Study Guide
Focus your reading on the following concepts.
Chapter 20
- Ore deposit
- U.S. mineral production and consumption
- Strategic minerals
- Reserves vs. total resources
- Mining Act of 1872
- Mineral conservation strategies
- Overburden
- Sedimentation
- Acid mine drainage
- Smelting
- Reclamation
- Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act
Chapter 21
- Energy consumption in developed and less developed countries
- Coal--uses, reserves, impacts of mining and combustion
- Oil--uses, reserves
- Natural gas--uses and reserves
- Oil shale--reserves and impacts of production
- Nuclear fission
- Pros and cons of nuclear power
- The Chernobyl accident
- Nuclear waste
- Nuclear fusion
Chapter 22
- Energy conservation
- Energy Star program
- Energy conservation around the home
- Active solar systems
- Passive solar systems
- Photovoltaic cells
- Geothermal energy
- Hydropower
- Windpower
- Biomass energy sources
- Ethanol
- Hydrogen and fuel cells
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