The Case: Strip Mining on the Cumberland Plateau The goal of this small group ac
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The Case: Strip Mining on the Cumberland Plateau
The goal of this small group activity is to practice arranging information for presentation in reports and writing a statement of purpose.
Your group has been asked to prepare a report titled “The Negative Effects of Strip Mining on the Cumberland Plateau Region of Kentucky.” After brainstorming and researching your subject, your group settles on these four major topics:
• Economic and social effects of strip mining
• Description of the strip-mining process
• Environmental effects of strip mining
• Description of the Cumberland Plateau
Arrange these topics in the most sensible sequence.
When your topics are arranged, assume that subsequent research and further brainstorming produce this list of subtopics:
• Method of strip mining used in the Cumberland Plateau region
• Location of the region
• Permanent land damage
• Water pollution
• Lack of educational progress
• Geological formation of the region
• Open-pit mining
• Unemployment
• Increased erosion
• Auger mining
• Natural resources of the region
• Types of strip mining
• Increased flood hazards
• Depopulation
• Contour mining
Arrange these subtopics under appropriate topic headings. Use decimal notation to create the body of a formal outline. Finally, write a one sentence thesis for your outline. Appoint one group member to present the outline to the class.
Explanation / Answer
the correct arrangement of the following topics according to there subtopics is as follows
1. Description of the Cumberland Plateau //first the descritption
. Location of the Region
. Geological Formation of the Region
. Natural Resources of the Region
2. Description of the Strip-Mining Process // second is related to process
a. Types of Strip Mining
. Open-Pit Mining
. Auger Mining
. Contour Mining
b. Method of Strip Mining Used in the Cumberland Plateau
3. Environmental Effects of Strip Mining //effects of the mining
. Permanent Land Damage
. Increased Erosion
. Water Pollution
. Increased Flood Hazards
4. Economic and Social Effects of Strip Mining //social effects
. Depopulation
. Unemployment
. Lack of Educational Progress
this is the correct arrangement of the question above according to topics