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Thursday, April 6, 2017

Oil with nick

Today, Nick taught us about Coal

  • oil is a fossil fuel
  • fossil fuel; dead plants and animals under heat and pressure that can be burned for energy
  • plankton make sup a lot of oil
  • Diatom: a small plankton that makes up most the of oil 
  • use sand or acid to push oil up a pipe after a pipe is drilled down
  • refined: take out oils impurities
  • Crude oil is not usable when it come out of ground
  • used for plastic rubber asfault crayons ink and more
  • 9.4 million barrels a day
  • 42 gallons per barrel 
  • oil is a pollutant like in oceans
  • cause s most extreme acid rain
  • when burned releases co2 ands methane 
  • terribkle for marine lilfe

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