Finding Energy Sources on Earth
Overview
MS-ESS2-1 Earth's Systems
Develop a model to describe the cycling of Earth's materials and the flow of energy that drives this process.
MS-ESS2-2 Earth's Systems
Construct an explanation based on evidence for how geoscience processes have changed Earth's surface at varying time and spatial scales.
MS-ESS3-1 Earth and Human Activity
Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for how the uneven distributions of Earth's mineral, energy, and groundwater resources are the result of past and current geoscience processes.
Finding Energy Sources On Earth
Independent homework assignment to develop text-based scientific literacy and written communication skills.
Directions:
Please use the reading to answer the 8 questions posed throughout the text (questions are in bold). Due Thursday, November 5th by midnight.
1. Name 2 substances classified as ‘fossil fuels’.
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2. Explain why we say that fossil fuels are “non renewable”.
3. Explain the process by which sedimentary rock forms and relate it to the process by which fossil fuels form.
4. What are ‘hydrocarbons’?
5. Name 3 types of fossil fuels and briefly describe the characteristics of each
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6. Name the specific sedimentary rock where hydrocarbons first form.
7. Identify 2 characteristics of reservoir rock, and explain how these characteristics enable reservoir rock to “hold oil and gas like a sponge.”
8. Why do you think that oil and gas don’t just keep moving throughout sedimentary rock until they all end up seeping out onto Earth’s surface?