| Fossil Fuels | Unconventional Sources | Generating Electricity | Burning Fuels |
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Millions
Does it take hundreds, thousands, millions, or billions of years to form fossil fuels?
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Natural Gas
What are we trying to extract from the ground with hydraulic fracturing or “fracking?”
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Turbine
What is the name of a machine that turns an electric generator?
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Fuel, oxygen, and heat
What 3 things are required to start a combustion reaction (fire)
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Large amounts of dead plant matter (ancient swamps)
What is fossilized to form coal?
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Heat and water
Oil sands and oil shale require what to be processed into oil?
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Magnets and loops of wire
An electric generator uses 2 things to generate current. What are they?
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Heat and light (usually heat)
What are we trying to get, in general, when we burn things?
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“muck” composed of dead plankton from an ancient ocean floor
What is fossilized to form petroleum and natural gas?
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Cheaper fuels, energy independence, jobs
List one reason that using “fracking,” oil sands, or oil shale might be a good idea.
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More powerful magnets, more loops of wire, or spinning it faster
What could you do to make a generator more powerful?
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Carbon dioxide and water vapor (greenhouse gases)
When we burn natural gas, the cleanest hydrocarbon, what is still given off?
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Generating electricity
What is the primary use of coal?
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Environmental impact of strip mining, contamination of water, increased air pollution, disposal of by-products
List one reason that using “fracking,” oil sands, or oil shale might be a bad idea.
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Various, COST being a big one
List one reason that a source of alternative energy is not more popular (cons)
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Causes acid rain
Coal contains sulfur, which becomes sulfur dioxide when burned. Why is this bad?
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Gasoline for cars/buses, etc.
What is the PRIMARY use of petroleum?
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It wedges open cracks in the shale, and allows gas to flow up the well.
Explain the purpose of pumping a mix of sand, chemicals, and water deep into the ground.
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Burn coal, heat water, make steam, turn steam turbine, turn generator.
Explain how burning coal translates to generating electricity.
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They contribute to the warming trend of the Earth's atmosphere
Why do people think greenhouse gases are bad?
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