Day 05 - Deepwater Horizon

Today we're going to take an open-note quiz over hydrocarbons to give you a sense for the difference between a test over topics you've learned and worked at fact-memorization versus a test over topics you've researched and organized detailed information that you can rally as needed. This test is the latter kind. After you've taken the quiz, you are to spend the rest of the bell improving your notes so that you can perform well on tomorrow's hydrocarbons test.

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