P3

Question 1

What are the fossil fuels?

Answer 1

Gas
Oil
Coal

Question 2

How are fossil fuels used?

Answer 2

Extracted from ground or sea bed
Transported to oil refineries and power stations

Question 3

Is nuclear fuel non renewable?

Answer 3

Yes can be replaced

Question 4

What happens is most fossil fuel power stations?

Answer 4

Burning fossil fuels heat water in a boiler.
This produces steam
The steam drives a turbine that turns an electricity generator.

Question 5

What is a bio fuel with example?

Answer 5

Is any fuel taken from living or recently living organisms.
Animal waste is a example

Question 6

Give examples of biofuels

Answer 6

Biodiesel- uses waste veg oil and plants like rapeseed
Other are ethanol (from fermented sugar cane), straw, nutshells, and woodchip

Question 7

A biofuel is:

Answer 7

Renewable (regrows or is continually produced like rubbish)
Carbon- neutral- in theory the carbon that the organism takes in from the atmosphere as carbon dioxide can balance the amount that is released when a bio fuel is burnt

Question 8

What is nuclear fuel?

Answer 8

Taking energy from atoms

Question 9

What is the fuel in a nuclear power station?

Answer 9

Uranium or
Plutonium

Question 10

What is a wind turbine?

Answer 10

An electrical generator at the top of a narrow tower.

Question 11

What does a wave generator do?

Answer 11

Uses the waves to make a floating generator move up and down. This turns the generator and generates electricity.
A cable between the shoreline and the generator delivers electricity to the grid