Fossil Fuels

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

Definition of Fossil Fuels: a natural fuel such as coal or gas That have rotted down and down for 100,000s of years which turns it into fossil fuels NZ fossil fuels are found on the west coast 

• coal: a dark-brown to black solid substance formed naturally from the compaction and hardening of fossilised 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 

Examples of Fossil Fuels:

1. Methane gas
2.  anaerobic Decomposition  

What Fossil Fuels are mined?
How are they mined?

How are they mined?

1. Drilling
2. Digging
3. Picking
4. Exaggerating  
Where are they mined?

1. Desserts 
2. Caves
3. Water
4. Ice
5. Deep underground

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, bushes, flax, sea, etc)

Material:

1.  Cookie 
2.   Pen or pencil
3.   Plate
4.  Paper

Steps:

1.   Draw your island
2.   Get the choc chips of the cookie 
3.   Draw your island after mining 
4.   Write about what happened to your island 
5.   Eat the cookies

Findings: The island got destroyed as a result of the mining.

Conclusion: I think this is a good way to show what is happening to the world.