1. KQ: What are the environmental issues
raised by the extraction of rock from quarries?
Key Words
Limestone
Brick clay
Aggregate
Super quarry
Resource

2. Explain what is meant by economic geology? P. 173
Economic geology involves finding, extracting and using geological raw materials (resources) e.g. coal, oil, gas, minerals, metals and rock.
What is a Quarry?
A quarry is a large pit where rock and minerals are extracted.
TASK:
In pairs write down what the products of quarrying used for?
A super quarry is a large scale quarry!
LIMESTONE QUARRYING YORKSHIRE
GLENSANDA QUARRY SUPERBLAST!

3. Building Stone (kerbs) e.g. Sandstone / Limestone and Granite
Cement Manufacture
e.g. Limestone
& Gravel
USES OF PRODUCTS
OF QUARRYING
Aggregate
e.g. Granite, Dolerite
Bricks e.g. Clay
Mortar
e.g. sand

4. Glensanda Super-quarry
Glensanda quarry is an ………………………… super-quarry occupying a …………………………….. location on the south coast of the Morvern Peninsula,……………………. of Oban in……………………… It is the largest coastal quarry in Europe.
immense
remote
North
Scotland
The rock being quarried is Strontian………………., which is later crushed to make 7 million tonnes of………………………… for the …………………………… industry each year. It employs………… people.
Granite
aggregate
construction
200
Word bank
Remote
Aggregate
Immense
Construction
Scotland
Granite
200
North
OBAN
Glensanda

5. Answer by making sub-headings in your book.
QUESTIONS U geog p36-37
Answer by making sub-headings in your book.
What are the two advantages of quarrying?
Explain why quarrying is an example of an unsustainable activity?
3. Disadvantages of quarrying
Make a spider diagram to show the disadvantages of quarrying (split into Social, economic, environmental).
PORTLAND QUARRY

6. Disadvantages of quarrying
ENVIRONMENTAL
ECONOMIC
Visual pollution – scars landscape
Buildings / waste tips / faces
Agricultural land lost
Decline in tourism
Wildlife destroyed
Local house prices drop
Noise pollution – N&D (Blasting and excavation)
Negative effect on business?
Dust
Increased traffic
Surface drainage disturbed
Disadvantages of quarrying
Traffic and noise disturbance
Risk by passing HGV’s
SOCIAL

7. Reducing the Negative Impacts of Quarrying
Using these words explain how negative impacts of quarrying can be restricted?
Environmental Effects
Considered
Planning Authority
Planning Permission
Restrictions to………
imposed
Commitments to clean-up
(after site closure)

8. ANSWER!!
‘Environmental effects must be considered by the planning authority and planning permission must be gained before quarrying can start. The planning authority may insist the quarrying company cleans up and restores the quarry after it closes! Restrictions on working hours and transport route choice may be imposed to reduce the effects of noise on the locals.’