3.4 Using the coast

Question 1

What can you use to catch fish?

Answer 1

You can use small nets or lines with baited hooks to catch fish.

Question 2

What can you use to catch shellfish such as crabs and lobsters?

Answer 2

You can use baited traps on the bottom of the sea to shellfish such as crabs and lobsters.

Question 3

Where can you get much of the world’s oil and natural gas?

Answer 3

Much of the world’s oil and natural gas is pumped from the rocks of the seabed.

Question 4

What are used to drill wells down to the oil or gas?

Answer 4

Special platforms or rigs are used to drill wells down to the oil or gas.

Question 5

How was oil and gas taken to ashore?

Answer 5

Oil or gas was then taken ashore by pipeline or tanker ship.

Question 6

At which place, they changed the oil is processed into petrol, diesel oil, heating oil and other valuable fuels and materials?

Answer 6

The oil is sent to a refinery where it is processed into petrol, diesel oil, heating oil and other valuable fuels and materials.

Question 7

What kind of energy does the world’s first power station use to produce electricity?

Answer 7

The world’s first power station uses tidal energy to produce electricity.