Hurumanu Fossil fuels

Mining Fossil Fuels

What Fossil Fuels are mined? Mining is used to extract solid fossil fuels, such as coal, digging, scraping, or otherwise exposing buried resources.


 How are they mined? Coal is preserved by the earth in a rock layer called a coal seam; mining is the only way to remove it whether it's near the surface or deep underground.

Where are they mined? fossil fuel Any fuel — such as coal, petroleum (crude oil) or natural gas that has developed within the Earth over millions of years from the decayed remains of bacteria, plants or animals.

1. Oil -
2. Coal -
3. Gas -

Activity: Cookie Mining


On the sheet provided you need to make two drawings of your cookie.
1. Looking down at your cookie.
2. From Side on -  of the imaginary habitat that will live on the top of the cookie. ( trees, bushes, flax, sea, etc)

Material:
cookies
toothpick
plate

  Steps:
The teacher will give you a cookie
Put the cookie ion the plate
Pick the chocolate out of the cookie with the toothpick


Conclusion: When fossil fuses get puled out of the ground every thing around it will get killed over time.