Non-Renewable resources

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Non-Renewable resources

• Minerals and Energy
• Chapters 14 and 15

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Non-renewable Resources

• Any resource from the natural capital of the
  earth that used by humans and can not be
  naturally replaced in short time frame
• Resource is a concentration of a specific
  material at one place inside the Earths crust

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What non-renewable resources do we use?
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Some of the resources we use

• Iron Sand
• Oil Clay
• Natural Gas Gravel
• Aluminum Limestone
• Lead Coal
• Gold Copper
• Silver Platinum
• Chromium Sulfur

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Where will most of the gold in your wedding come
from?

• Pieces that you can see or not?

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Answer

• It takes tons of ore in general to produce enough
  gold for 2 wedding rings

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What are the connections between our resources
and our environment
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Connections

• How we extract it
• How we process it
• How we use it
• What we do with it after we stop using it

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What material is needed to build the car or bus
that gets you to school?
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They include
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Will there be any need for oil if the entire
world ends up using only solar, wind and nuclear
energy?
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What material is used to create plastic?
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What makes a car and your cell phone work?
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What is the main mineral ingredient for most
batteries?
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LEAD
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Movie about the production and dangers of lead

• Watch to understand the basics about
• The beneficial properties of lead
• Steps about how Lead is produced
• The dangers associated with being in contact with
  Lead

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Beneficial properties

• High grade ore
• Ductile
• Low melting point
• Absorbs electromagnetic radiation
• Conductive

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Steps

• Mine the ore
• Crush the ore
• Separate the lead from the rest of the material
• Oxidize the lead (note workers wearing masks)
• Melt to convert into ingots
• Melt ingots into rolls of lead material

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Dangers

• Did the workers in the mines seem to be in
  danger? Any precautions?
• How much is needed for significant developmental
  damage to occur?
• What do lead atoms do that makes it poisonous?
• Why are kids more susceptible?

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Environmental concerns

• Did you any potential environmental problems
  with
• Mining
• Processing into ingots
• Processing into finished products
• Use of those products
• Disposal of those products

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Any good environmental news you saw in the movie?
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Movie about gold production

• While watching, note any information on
• Working conditions of the miners
• Compare/ Contrast Production of gold to Lead
• Environmental problems connected to production
  different from Lead

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Do you know how gold in the rings is produced?