QuarryEd Home - An Education and Careers Resource for teachers and students

QuarryEd Home - An Education and Careers Resource for teachers and students

 Teacher Zone - Access an assortment of education resources and information for the A level curriculum Student Zone - Find fascinating facts and information resources for your studies at school, college and home Careers Zone - Discover how you can have excellent employment prospects and a superb salary! About QuarryEd - An education and careers resource for teachers and students QuarryEd Sitemap
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Responsibility - Find out more about the extractive industry's environmental and social performance News - Updates about what's going on in the extractive industry Visits and events - Find details of active and dormant quarry and mine sites that you can visit, education training events linked to the earth sciences and open days for universities          
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Student - Extraction and you- Find out how the extractive industry links to you and your everyday life

Student - Subject matter- Discover how the subjects that you study are used in a real life industry

Student - Student resources- Access a wide range of information resources linked to the A level curriculum

Student A level resources - Biology
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Student A level resources - Environmental science
Student A level resources - Geography
Student A level resources - Geology
Student A level resources - Mathematics
Student A level resources - Physics

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Environmental Science

On this page you will find a range of information resources for A level environmental science to help you with your studies at school, college or at home.

Resources

The lithosphere

Rock types and their uses Coming soon!
Economic benefits of geomorphological processes Coming soon!
Viability of extracting mineral resources Coming soon!
Minerals processing Coming soon!
Environmental impacts of quarrying, mining & dredging Environmental impacts of quarrying, mining & dredging
Mineral extraction as a land use Coming soon!
Land reclamation Coming soon!

 

The biosphere

Quarries as ecosystems Coming soon!
Ecological techniques Coming soon!
Successional processes in quarries Coming soon!

Pollution and Physical Resource Management

Derelict and polluted land and its reclamation – Acid (mine) drainage Coming soon!
Where are they now? - Learn more about the lives of people who work in the extractive industry todayDig this! - Read about cutting edge mining and quarrying projects in the UK and throughout the worldFieldstudies - Discover how both active and dormant extractive sites offer fascinating fieldstudy opportunitiesWhat's yours is mined! - Find out how much the extractive industry underpins each of our daily lives