mining
Mining supplies metals, fuels, and industrial minerals. This topic is part of Natural Resources within Science & Nature. This page currently draws on 13 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.
mining trivia questions
Mining removes valuable what from Earth?
Answer: Minerals and ores
Bonus fact: Mining supplies metals, fuels, and industrial minerals.
What type of mining follows underground deposits through tunnels and shafts?
Answer: Underground mining
Bonus fact: Underground methods reach deposits too deep for surface extraction.
What is ore?
Answer: Rock containing economically valuable material
Bonus fact: Whether material qualifies as ore depends partly on economics and technology.
What economic sector includes activities such as farming, fishing, mining, and forestry?
Answer: Primary sector
Bonus fact: The primary sector extracts or produces raw materials directly from natural resources.
What type of coal mining removes overlying rock to reach shallow deposits?
Answer: Surface mining
Bonus fact: Surface mining includes strip mining and open-pit methods.
Nauru's economy was historically built largely on mining what?
Answer: Phosphate
Bonus fact: Rich phosphate deposits came from ancient seabird guano.
The Centenary Diamond was discovered by which mining company?
Answer: De Beers
Bonus fact: Its discovery was announced during De Beers's centenary celebrations.
Which mining ship serves as the main setting of Alien?
Answer: Nostromo
Bonus fact: Ridley Scott's Alien was released in 1979 and was his second feature film.
Which activity can cause habitat destruction?
Answer: Land clearing
Bonus fact: Agriculture, roads, mining, and urban growth can transform habitats.
What district is Katniss from?
Answer: District 12
Bonus fact: District 12 is a poor coal-mining region of Panem.
What is the name commonly given to the corrupt setting of Red Harvest?
Answer: Poisonville
Bonus fact: The fictional mining town is officially Personville but nicknamed Poisonville.
"Paint Your Wagon" is set during which historical phenomenon?
Answer: California Gold Rush
Bonus fact: The story follows prospectors and settlers in a rough California mining camp.