Day 02 - Hydrocarbon Economy
Today in class I am going to walk you through an overview of the hydrocarbon economy, during which I will need you to take careful notes. I am not reproducing the information here because I need you to compose your own notes rather than simply copy and paste my text. If for any reason you missed today, you will have to get your notes from a classmate. Remember that the notes you take during this unit may be used on the test at the end of the unit.
- Anthropogenic
- anything caused by human activity
- Anthropogenic Climate Change
- changes in the long-term atmospheric conditions of the Earth that are attributable primarily to human action
- Climate
- an average of weather conditions over a long period of time in the same location
- Fracking
- the common name for hydraulic fracturing, a process by which petroleum engineers use a highly dense solution to crack rocks deep beneath the surface, causing oil and natural gas to bubble up from an intermingled state that would resist traditional oil pumping techniques
- Hydrocarbon
- any molecule consisting exclusively of hydrogen and carbon atoms; starches, sugars, and fossil fuels are examples of hydrocarbons
