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Eyes on the Earth, I, II, III,
technique can be used on any image, and this episode offers a unique opportunity to see it applied to a watercolor painting and to watch the artist's reaction. This video features mathematician Elinor Velasquez, geologist Dick Birnie, and watercolor a...
Environmental Literacy: Mineral Resources
oxygen, water, or hydroxyl. These three groups are vital as they form many of the ores from which valuable metals can be extracted, including iron, lead and bauxite. Essentially, if a material is not grown, it must be mined. Minerals are an economic commodity, mined for their p...
Environmental Literacy: Aluminum
remained too energy intensive for the electrical generator capacities of the nineteenth century. Industrial production on a wide scale would not occur until the twentieth century when further efficiencies were achieved with the introduction of the Bayer process. Karl Joseph Bay...
Environmental Literacy: Cell Phone Life Cycle
usually plastic 5. Microphone and Speaker 6. Antenna 7. Battery 8. Adapter (not pictured here) This analysis will begin by focusing on the inputs and outputs in making just one component of a cell phone - the computer chip. Cell Phone Inventory Analysis Circled in y...
Environmental Literacy: Cell Phone Life Cycle
usually plastic 5. Microphone and Speaker 6. Antenna 7. Battery 8. Adapter (not pictured here) This analysis will begin by focusing on the inputs and outputs in making just one component of a cell phone - the computer chip. Cell Phone Inventory Analysis Circled in y...
Environmental Literacy: Gold Mining
mine through extraction and cyanidation. Also see, The Uses of Gold, for a list of everyday objects that use gold. Martha Mine, New Zealand: Ore Processing and Gold Extraction The web site provides an introductory outline of the process of mining ore...
Environmental Literacy: Gold Mining
mine through extraction and cyanidation. Also see, The Uses of Gold, for a list of everyday objects that use gold. Martha Mine, New Zealand: Ore Processing and Gold Extraction The web site provides an introductory outline of the process of mining ore...
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