Answer:
Step-by-step explanation:
Many of the products we use everyday – from plastic water bottles to wrist watches and crayons to headphone wires – are produced from rocks and minerals mined from the earth. These rocks and minerals are considered a non-renewable resource because there is only a set amount of each and once it is used up, it will be gone forever. Some of these resources are very common and others are scarce. As the human population has grown, the demand for these resources has grown as well.
Extracting rocks and minerals from the earth is typically done by mining. Large scale mining operations are used all over the world and can often damage the
land on which they take place. Unfortunately, the
end result of mining (the profits made by selling the ore) can at times overshadow the damage done by the process (destroyed animal habitat, clear cutting of trees, pollution of local
streams, etc.).