Dowal School
Educational Technology Center
Score: _____________
Chemistry II
Mrs. Zelwa Castellón
Investigation Project
InfographicFossil Fuels
Name: Ricardo Montes
Date: 20/4/22
11th
Instructions:
1.Attach This page to your infographic.
2. You will design an infographic. If you use a template
from Canva, make sure you modify it and make it your
own, be creative!
3. Complete all the questions that you are being asked
so you don´t lose any points.
4. The total points for this assignment is 25%
distributed into:
-2 class periods 5% each- 10% ; Infographic completed15%
https://www.lenntech.com/greenhouse-effect/fossilfuels.htm
1. What is a Fossil Fuel?
2. How are fossil fuels formed? Explain the process of
each of the different types of fossils.
3. Are fossil fuels renewable or nonrenewable
resources? Why?
4. What is the worlds’ problem with fossil fuels? (Hint:
The main one is not global warming).
5. Describe the 4 main products derived from fossil
fuels: Oil/Petroleum, Coal, Natural gas, and Orimulsion.
https://sciencing.com/about-5403214-four-types-fossilfuels.html
https://helpsavenature.com/types-of-fossil-fuels
6. Why is knowing about fossil fuels important?
https://blog.udemy.com/types-of-fossil-fuels/
7.What is the History of Global Warming?
https://www.lenntech.com/greenhouse-effect/globalwarming-history.htm
8.What is the Kyoto Protocol?
https://www.lenntech.com/greenhouse-effect/kyotoemission-reductions-overview.htm
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Note: The links provided before are just some of the
many websites available. Do not limit your research to
these links exclusively.
Fossil Fuels
1. What is a fossil fuel? Coal, crude oil, and natural gas
are all considered fossil fuels because they were
formed from the fossilized, buried remains of plants
and animals that lived millions of years ago. Because
of their origins, fossil fuels have a high carbon
content.
2. How are fossil fuels formed? After millions of years
underground, the compounds that make up plankton
and plants turn into fossil fuels. Plankton decomposes
into natural gas and oil, while plants become coal.
Today, humans extract these resources through coal
mining and the drilling of oil and gas wells on land and
offshore.
As the plants died, they sank to the bottom of the
swamps. Over the years, thick layers of plants were
covered by dirt and water.
3. Are fossil fuels renewable or nonrenewable
resources? Why?
Fossil energy sources, including oil, coal, and natural
gas, are non-renewable resources that formed when
prehistoric plants and animals died and were gradually
buried by layers of rock.
Why is nonrenewable? Because fossil fuels take too
much time to form
4. What is the worlds’ problem with fossil fuels?
When we burn oil, coal, and gas, we don't just meet our
energy needs, we drive the current global warming
crisis as well.
5. Describe the 4 main products derived from fossil fuels:
Oil/Petroleum, Coal, Natural gas, and Orimulsion.
Petroleum: yellowish-black liquid found in geological
formations.
coal: black or brownish-black sedimentary rock
Natural gas: is a naturally occurring hydrocarbon gas
mixture consisting of methane and commonly includes
various amounts of other higher alkanes
Orimulsion: a fuel consisting of an emulsion of bitumen in
water.
6. Why is knowing about fossil fuels important?
Because is a non-renewable natural resource
that is very important that we use every day
7. What is the History of Global Warming?
In the 1800s, experiments suggesting that humanproduced carbon dioxide (CO2) and other gases could
collect in the atmosphere and insulate Earth were met
with more curiosity than concern. By the late 1950s, CO2
readings would offer some of the first data to corroborate
the global warming theory.
8.What is the Kyoto Protocol?
The Kyoto Protocol was an international
agreement that aimed to reduce carbon dioxide
emissions and the presence of greenhouse gases
in the atmosphere. The essential tenet of the Kyoto
Protocol was that industrialized nations needed to
lessen the amount of their CO2 emissions.