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Fossil Fuels Flashcards

1
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What are Fossil Fuels?

A

Hydrocarbons

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2
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What are Hydrocarbons?

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Any organic compound composed only of carbon and hydrogen.

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What does burning fossil fuels do?

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Creates greenhouse gases which cause global warming, creates waste products that can act as pollutatnts and have harmful enviromental effect

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4
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Name at least two types of fossil fuels?

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Natural Gas

Oil

Coal

Nuclear

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5
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What do humans use to live and function?

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Chemical Engery from food

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6
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Name two activities that require energy?

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Travelling and communicating, Manufacturing products, Controlling our enviroment

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7
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Name to chain for electricity?

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Power Station 20, 000V

STEP UP TRANSFROMER 400, 000V

Power Lines 400, 000V

STEP DOWN TRANSFORMER 33,000V

Homes 230V/Factories

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8
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What are fossil fuels made from?

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The remains of once living things

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9
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What is oil made from?

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Dead plankton

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How is oil formed?

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  1. Living thing dies
  2. Remains settle on ocean floor
  3. Layers of sediment form when sand and other materials settle on the oceanfloor on top of dead plankton
  4. Over millions of years the pressure of the sand, soil and rock turns the fossils into oil
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11
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OIL

A

MNS OF SEA CREATUES 50yrs

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12
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Coal

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dead plant remains 250yrs

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13
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natural gas

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dead animal remains 70yrs

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14
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How ar fossil fuels formed

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They were formed from biological deposits over course of million of years

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15
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Carbon Dioxide

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this greenhouse gas is the main waste product of burning fossil fuels, increased levels of co2 due to human activities are thought to be connected with global warming

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16
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Sulfur dioxide SO2 and nitric oxides

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these gaseous pllutants contribute to the formation of smog(mix of smoke and fog) and acid rain

17
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Ash

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This waste solid is disposed of in landfill sites

18
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Extracton of cude oil from Fractional Distillation gives us many useful products.

A

HEATED CRUDE OIL GOES IN

Bitumen - road tarr- in the bottom

Fuel oil - heating

Diesel oil-buses lorries

Kerosene - aircrafts

Naphtha - making plastics

Petrol - Cars all underlined in the side

Refinery gases - gas for gas cookers - in the top

19
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WHAT HAPPENS IN A FRACTINAL DISTILLATIR

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first the oil is heated to a vapour and pumped into a tall tower

as it travels up liquids of different boiling points are collected

happens in scotland at grangemouth near edinburgh

20
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Meathane

A

gas,contains one carbon atom and four hydrogen atoms

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