Ap Human Geography

Iron is the fourth common element. It can be found in Earth's crust and core. There is an abundant amount of iron that can be found in the stars.

Mineralogy- An important part of Geology is the study of Minerals, their physical properties, structure, and chemistry. It helps us understand how they react with one another depending on the circumstances including weathering, fire, how deep, with living or non-living organisms. Minerology is broad and interesting field of study.

1. Which of the three economic resources do you feel is the most important? Explain

There are two types of minerals that we find in Earth - rock-forming and ore minerals.

Natural resources are materials or substances such as minerals, forests, water, and fertile land that occur in nature and can be used for economic gain, and Arkansas is rich with natural resources.

It is true that some of these resources produce a valuable use such as energy, in the case of petroleum, but we have exploited it too much. We use more than we are supposed until one of these days we ran out of it. We should just live with what we can and what we already have. Also I believe that some other natural resources should remain untouched by the human hands. We need to find a way to protect our environment since this our planet, our only home. We also need to change our characters. Good people still exists in the world nowadays, but the problem is that we care too much about ourselves. We want everything for ourselves. If necessary, we need to go back to the age of the gold race. Where people used to live in peace, used to respect and care for each other, where there was no

22) What mining region has the most varied mineral deposits of the world, with over 1,000 minerals?

Natural resources can be found all over America from dirt to diamond all the resources found help build our nation. “The great California gold rush began on January 24, 1848, when James W. Marshall discovered a gold nugget in the American River.”(California

Natural resource: is something from nature such as land. Water and farms. Companies use land for industrial and commercial purpose. Natural resource is the foundation to produce good or service. Because of the demand fast food increase. Macdonalds required a large quantity of beef so they need to import beef from different suppliers or farms .

Natural resources are a vital part of communities throughout the United States. Concerns regarding energy and the alternatives to using energy. The issues concerning natural resources have been apparent for multiple decades.

The amount of a natural resource that a region or deposit has is classified either as a reserve or as a resource. Reserves of natural resources are the volume of natural resource that is economically and commercially exploitable with available technology. Resources are the total volume of natural resources present in the system or region, but may not be exploitable with current technology or economic evaluations. Resources may turn into reserves and reserves may turn into resources, dependent upon current market prices. (Owen, Inderwildi & King, 2010).

History has explained the fact that at one point in time, the earth's natural resources had no limit. Raw materials were plenty, because of the fact that there were plenty of natural resources to go around. Natural resources can be identified as the raw materials that comes from the earth and are useful. Natural resources can never be made by humans. Athough, these raw materials can be modified, or altered to benefit corporations and businesses. For example, natural resources are fossil fuels like petroleum, natural gas, and coal. Minerals like diamonds, gold, and copper are natural resources that come from the earth. Other resources are known as natural vegetation, like forests and timber. Animals are our earth's natural resources as well, like salmon, deer, whales, chickens, etc. The air we breathe, and the wind are all also natural resources. Water, like lakes, rivers and

Firstly, let us take a look at tangible resources. Under this category, we have financial resources, organizational resources, physical resources and technological resources.

Non renewable resources, such as coal, oil, gold and cooper, are land resources which once used will never be replaced. Once they are used, the quantity of those kinds of resources would be reduced. Scarcity may exist in this situation, Scarcity implies that there are unlimited wants in the world but with limited resources. For resources like coal, mine, gold

Depending on how deep into the earth the minerals are that are to be extracted, explosives are used to blast rock into smaller pieces and heavy machinery brings it out of the earth from the tunnels that are formed by the explosives. The minerals are then processed by a separation method to be refined into products. The processing includes heating the metals after separation to temperatures that reach 1600 degrees to be formed.