Friday, 26 October 2012
Thursday, 18 October 2012
Coal mining questions
1.- The difference is that surface mining is used when a coal seam is close to the surface and underground mining is used when a coal seam lies deep into the earth.
2.-They use heavy equipmet, like trucks to take topsoil to a special place where it will be saved until mining is finished in this area. Also drills and explosives are place in tho holes to break the overburden.
3.-Tunnels are used for traveling through the mine.
4.-Conveyor belts takes out coal from the mine.
5.-Three different types of underground mining are slope, drift and shaft. In a slope mine a tunnel slants down from the surface to the coal seam. In a drift mine is used when a coal seam lies inside a hill or a mountain. Anda shaft mine are from 125 to 1000 feet deep. Is a large hole or shaft that is drilled down into the ground until they reach the coal seam.
And five words from the glossary.
-Bituminuos: Type of coal used orimarily to generate electricity and mae coke for steel.
-Coke: A hard dry substance containing carbon that is produced by heating bituminous coal to a very hifgh temperature.
-Lignite: Type of coal with lowest carbon content, called "Brown Coal", used mainly for electric power generation.
-Conveyor: A continous moving belt that transprts large volumes of material.
-Longwall mining: Mechanised technique used to scratch coal from a block several feet wide.
2.-They use heavy equipmet, like trucks to take topsoil to a special place where it will be saved until mining is finished in this area. Also drills and explosives are place in tho holes to break the overburden.
3.-Tunnels are used for traveling through the mine.
4.-Conveyor belts takes out coal from the mine.
5.-Three different types of underground mining are slope, drift and shaft. In a slope mine a tunnel slants down from the surface to the coal seam. In a drift mine is used when a coal seam lies inside a hill or a mountain. Anda shaft mine are from 125 to 1000 feet deep. Is a large hole or shaft that is drilled down into the ground until they reach the coal seam.
And five words from the glossary.
-Bituminuos: Type of coal used orimarily to generate electricity and mae coke for steel.
-Coke: A hard dry substance containing carbon that is produced by heating bituminous coal to a very hifgh temperature.
-Lignite: Type of coal with lowest carbon content, called "Brown Coal", used mainly for electric power generation.
-Conveyor: A continous moving belt that transprts large volumes of material.
-Longwall mining: Mechanised technique used to scratch coal from a block several feet wide.
Monday, 1 October 2012
Shakespeare ten facts and another thing.
-Shakespeare wrote a play called "A Midsummer Night's Dream".-Shakespeare was born in the depths of the night.
-When he was eight his dad took him to a play.
-Anne Hathaway and William Shakespeare got married.
-Shakespeare wrote "Hamlet".
-His son, Hamnet died at the age of eleven.
-He wrote "Romeo and Juliet"
-William and his friends built a theatre called "The globe".
-Shakespeare's theatre "The globe" burned down.
-William Shakespeare died.
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William Shakespeare is born to John and Mary Shakespeare in the town of Stratford Upon Avon on 1564.
He is famous for the plays that he wrote.
He wrote plays.
He lieved in Stratford.
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