Fossil Fuels Flashcards

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What are all the types of energy

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Electrical Energy, Kinetic Energy, Sound Energy, Light Energy, Heat Energy, Gravitational Potential Energy, Chemical Potential Energy, Elastic Potential Energy, Nuclear Energy

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What Energy did the Māori use

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Wind and Wave power for the Wakas, Fire for Food, Coal burnt by Iwi in the central north island

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What are types of fossil fuel

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Solid, Liquid, Gas

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What are types of fossil fuel

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Solid, Liquid, Gas

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How was oil and gas fossil fuels formed

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Dead animals were squashed beneath the ground and unable to rot due to the lack of oxygen which over millions of years they were squashed enough until they formed oil and gas

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How was coal fossil fuels formed

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Dead plants were squashed under swamps and unable to rot due to the lack of oxygen so over millions of years they formed a solid fuel called coal

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Why are fossil fuels so important

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Our worlds economy and infrastructure have been designed by the use of fossil fuels such as farming, transport, and electricity

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Uses of fossil fuels

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Provides electricity, Heat, Transportation, Manufacturing medicine

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9
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What atoms is copper element made of

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Copper atoms

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What atoms is copper element made of

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Copper atoms

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What is carbon element made of

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Carbon atoms

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What is helium element made of

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Helium atoms

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What are atoms

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Basic building blocks of matter

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What are elements

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Anything on the periodic table

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What does the atomic number stand for

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The Number on the top stands for the number of of protons/electrons found in the nucleus

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What does the mass number stand for

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The number on the bottom stands for the total number of protons and neutrons in the nucleus

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What particles is a atom made of

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Electrons, Protons, neutrons

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Are protons negatively or positively charged

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Positively

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Are Electrons positively or negatively charged

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Negatively

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How do i find the Mass number in a element

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Number of protons + number or neutrons

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How do i find the number of neutrons in a element

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Mass number - atomic number

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What is Magnetism

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Separates magnetic material from non magnetic

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What is distillation

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Separates Liquids with different boiling points

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What is chromatography

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Separates liquids of different colours

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What is filtration

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Separates insoluble solid from a liquid

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What is evaporation

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Separates a soluble solid by boiling off

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What are elements made up of

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Only one type of atom which as iron (Fe)

28
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What are elements made up of

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Only one type of atom which as iron (Fe)

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What are compounds made up of

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compounds are made when two or more different elements chemically combine for example water (H20) carbon dioxide (CO2)

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Are elements a pure substance

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Yes

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Are compounds a pure substance

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Yes

32
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Are mixtures a pure substance

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No

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What are mixtures made of

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Mixtures are made of more than one substance compound or element and they are not bonded together for example (sea water, the air, alloys and oil)

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What’s the difference between a pure substance and a mixture

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Pure substances have particles which are all the same and mixtures contain different particles

35
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When blue litmus paper turns red is it a acid or base

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Acid

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When red litmus paper turns blue is it a acid or a base

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Base