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Fossil Fuels Flashcards

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Where is coal found?

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Swamps

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What is coal made from?

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Dead plants

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How is coal formed?

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Layers of rock and dirt compressed over time with heat, time and pressure

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When was coal formed?

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Millions of years ago

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Where is oil found?

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Ocean floor

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What is oil made of?

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Plankton

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How is oil formed?

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Layers of sediment, heat, time and pressure

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When was oil formed?

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Millions of years ago

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Where’s gas found?

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Oil deposits

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What is gas made of?

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Plankton and microorganisms

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How is gas formed?

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Even higher temperatures and amount of pressure

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Why doesn’t everyone agree on how we use fossil fuels?

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Environmental impacts, financial aspect, easy to use, comfortable with it, where they live, age, wealth, accessibility, climate

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What are the three main greenhouse gases released through burning fossil fuels!

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C02 (carbon dioxide), CH4 (Methane), H20 (water/steam)

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14
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What causes acid rain?

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SO2 (sulphur dioxide) and some carbon dioxide

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What particulates are released?

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Carbon and other impurities

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What’s the process of the gases contributing to climate change?

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Fossil fuels burnt, gases released including CO2, up into atmosphere, layer thickens, gases trapped, greenhouse effect, climate change, climate/weather extremes

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Fossil fuels are non renewable, define non renewable.

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An energy source that cannot be replenished at the rate they are used, they will eventually run out.

18
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What does a basic power station contain?

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Boiler, turbine, cooling tower, generator. Transformer

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What does the boiler do?

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Heat from fuel turns water into steam

20
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What do the turbines do?

A

Getting kinetic energy from energy stores of steam

21
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What does the generator do?

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Turned by turbines to produce electric current

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