Fossil Fuels

Question 1

What are Fossil Fuels?

Answer 1

Hydrocarbons

Question 2

What are Hydrocarbons?

Answer 2

Any organic compound composed only of carbon and hydrogen.

Question 3

What does burning fossil fuels do?

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Name at least two types of fossil fuels?

Answer 4

Natural Gas

Oil

Coal

Nuclear

Question 5

What do humans use to live and function?

Answer 5

Chemical Engery from food

Question 6

Name two activities that require energy?

Answer 6

Travelling and communicating, Manufacturing products, Controlling our enviroment

Question 7

Name to chain for electricity?

Answer 7

Power Station 20, 000V

STEP UP TRANSFROMER 400, 000V

Power Lines 400, 000V

STEP DOWN TRANSFORMER 33,000V

Homes 230V/Factories

Question 8

What are fossil fuels made from?

Answer 8

The remains of once living things

Question 9

What is oil made from?

Answer 9

Dead plankton

Question 10

How is oil formed?

Answer 10

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

Question 11

OIL

Answer 11

MNS OF SEA CREATUES 50yrs

Question 12

Coal

Answer 12

dead plant remains 250yrs

Question 13

natural gas

Answer 13

dead animal remains 70yrs

Question 14

How ar fossil fuels formed

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Carbon Dioxide

Answer 15

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

Question 16

Sulfur dioxide SO2 and nitric oxides

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Ash

Answer 17

This waste solid is disposed of in landfill sites

Question 18

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

Answer 18

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

Question 19

WHAT HAPPENS IN A FRACTINAL DISTILLATIR

Answer 19

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

Question 20

Meathane

Answer 20

gas,contains one carbon atom and four hydrogen atoms