Chapter 16 Vocabulary Matching Quiz Crossword
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
 
 
Down: 1) the conversion of wasteland into land suitable for use of habitation or cultivation.3) the gradual caving in or sinking of an area of land.4) including strip mining, open-pit mining and mountaintop removal mining, is a broad category of mining in which soil and rock overlying the mineral deposit are removed. Across: 2) Minerals are concentrated by wind and water into surface deposits.5) a naturally occurring, usually inorganic solid that has a characteristic chemical composition, an orderly physical structure, and a characteristic set of physical properties.6) Ore minerals may form from the cooling of magma, the circulation of hot-water solutions through rocks, and the evaporation of water that contains salts.7) the process in which ore is melted at high temperatures to separate impurities from the molten metal.8) consists of digging tunnels or shafts into the earth to reach buried ore deposits.
 

 

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