Fossil Fuels

Hurumanu - Fossil Fuels.

 

Aim:

To look at how fossil fuels are contributing to climate change and how we can prevent this.

Definition of Fossil Fuels: 

Fossil Fuels- classified as natural fuels: they are of likes of coal, gases and oils; formed in the past made from the remains of living beings.

Scientific Terms for Students

• coal: a dark-brown to a black solid substance formed naturally from the compaction and hardening of fossilized plants and used as a fuel primarily for electricity generation
• natural gas: a mixture of hydrocarbon gases that occurs naturally beneath the earth’s surface and is used as a fuel primarily for cooking and heating homes
• renewable resource: a resource that is never used up (e.g., solar energy)
• non-renewable resource: a resource that is not replaceable after its use (e.g., coal, gas)

Examples of Fossil Fuels:

1.   Coal
2.   Crude Oil
3.   Natural gases

Activity: 

In groups of 3, you will learn about different fossil fuels and the way they are mined?
Each group will be given a fossil fuel. The recorder will read it to the group. The recorder will write down some of the important points.
Person 1: Recorder: to write down 5 points of interest from the text. 

1. 5 Points:
2. Positives and negatives of your type of mining.

Person 2: Reporter: to read back to the class their 5 points of interest.
Person 3: Collector: Gathers the required stationary from the teacher.

Mining Fossil Fuels

What Fossil Fuels are mined?
How are they mined?

1.  Open-pit mining
2.  Strip mining
3. Quarrying
4. Surface mining

Where are they mined?

1.  Saudi Arabia
2. Russia
3. United States
4. China 
5. Australia

Activity;

On the sheet provided you need to make two drawings of your cookie. 
1. looking down at it. 
2. side on -  of the imaginary habitat that will live on the top of the cookie. ( trees, buses, flax, sea, etc)

Material:

1.  Chocolate chip Cookie
2.   Plate
3.   Toothpick
4.  A partner

Steps:

1.   Grab a chocolate chip cookie and put it in the container [plate].
2.   Partner and yourself will need to take each yourself a toothpick.
3.   Start to "mine" at the cookie.
4.   Carefully start to go around the chocolate chips on the [first] layer.
5.   Workaround all the chocolate chips with damaging and voila! Mining experiment accomplished.

Once you have drawn your cookies you must take 2 pictures and upload them to your blog.

Findings: What did you find out as a result of your mining?

It is challenging to get around all the most substantial materials; which in this case the chocolate chips. We also found out that mining through the "coals" will damage a lot of what was on top or underneath. Which if done in reality which it is now, it could damage a lot of habitats that are fundamental to the existence of our animals.

Conclusion: 
In conclusion, using and burning these fossil fuels; affect our atmosphere at the fundamental and in the most important way. The burning of fuels as such effect the damage done to our planet. With climate and global warming being such a huge problem. We need to work on a solution to avoid such instances wherein the near future the planet will be in wreak or is no more. Though there have been such "solutions" like using solar energy, wind energy, etc. It still cannot counteract the amount of fossil fuels that we use. By this, we might have a lot of problems in the future and may raise some very important decisions to be made.