Reading Assignment:
Chapter 5
Energy from Fossil
Fuels
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Energy
Units
The
Changing Use of Energy
Fossil
Fuels: Coal || Peat Resources || Petroleum || Natural Gas || The
Persian Gulf War 1990-1991 || The United States Strategic Petroleum Reserve
|| Heavy Oils and Tar Sands || Coal Bed Methane || Oil Shale
Future
Fossil Fuel Resources
Study
Aid: Click
here for a list of bullet points to help you learn the topics of this chapter.
Activities (things you must do):
Read
Chapter five of your textbook
Review
the map and reports on acid rain, atmospheric deposition and precipitation
chemistry of south
Click
on this link <http://www.epa.gov/acidrain/>
to learn more about acid rain.
Enhance
you understanding of the effects of acid rain by view its
effects on Washington, D.C.
Click
here < http://www.ocrwm.doe.gov/ymp/index.shtml>
to read about the
Abilities
Acquired (what you learned):
By the end of this chapter you should be able to:
1.-
Explain how the "Fossil Fuel Era" fits into human history.
2.-
Discuss "swamp gas." How does it form?
3.-
Briefly describe the conditions necessary for the accumulation and development
of coal.
4.-
Summarize the factors that determine whether coal will be mined by underground
or open pit methods.
5.-
Summarize the origin of Coal and relation to acid rain.
6.-List
the principal environmental problems that arise from the use of coal as
a major energy source.
7.-Describe
the changes in the use of fossil fuels in time.
8.-Compare
the utility of peat with coal as a fuel.
9.-
Explain what
is kerogen.
10.-Discuss
the two mechanisms by which natural gas forms.
11.-
Explain the processes involved in the formation of oil.
12.-List
the major types of oil traps.
13.-Explain
the differences between primary and secondary oil recovery of oil.
14.-Describe
the general steps involved in the refining of oil.
15.-
Explain the effects
of the OPEC oil embargo of 1973 on subsequent oil usage and production.
16.-
Describe the general steps involved in the refining of oil.
17.-Give an
explanation of what the M. King Hubbert-type
curves tell us about the future availability ofpetroleum
reserves.
18.-
Give the proportionofthe
original oil in the rocks ofa
trap are usually recoverable.
19.-
Describe the way in which natural gas is brought from areas such as the
Middle Eat to major markets in the industrialized nations.
20.-
Name the kind of gas is the cause of many coal mine explosions.
21.-Describe
oil shales, and how do they form?
22.-
List three factors that have controlled the development of the oil shale
industry in
the