Pros and Cons
Releasing toxic chemicals into the environment
What is pollution?
Liquid used in pens
What is ink?
Extracts petroleum in the Ocean
What is an oil rig?
Caused from broken pipelines, sunken oil ships, and drilling operations
What are Oil Spills?
Non renewable fossil fuel found in the ground
What is petroleum?
An energy source which will eventually run out
What is nonrenewable?
A fuel that powers cars
What is gasoline?
A well dug out to extract petroleum
What is an oil well?
Where oil spills occur
What are oil rigs and drill sites?
Made from petroleum, this substance cleans your teeth
What is toothpaste
Provides constant power
What is a stable energy source?
A material used in art
What is paint?
The main method of transporting petroleum
What are pipelines?
How we can prevent and stop oil spills
What are stronger rules and better equipment
Petroleum's most common use
What is transportation?
Toxic gas released when petroleum is burned
What is carbon dioxide?
The material that makes up roads
What is asphalt?
The machine used to pull petroleum out of the ground
What is a pump jack?
The People Responsible for Cleaning Oil Spills
What is The United States Coast Guard?
Created by heat and pressure from ancient organisms in the Ground
What is petroleum's formation process?
Large amount of energy produced from a small amount of mass
What is a high power ratio?
Used in grills and to heat homes
What is propane?
The process of fluid getting shot out at high pressure to break rock and release oil and gas
What is fracking?
Three ways Oil Spills are dealt with
What are Booms, Skimmers, and Dispersants?
How we find Petroleum
What are seismic surveys