Day 06 - Hydrocarbons Test
Today we are going to take a test on hydrocarbons. Because there is no need to memorize all of the content from this unit - but there is a need to understand how it all plays together - this will be an open-note test. You are welcome to leverage the resources we have spent the past week or so generating in class. Shortly before the test we'll watch a video about the Deepwater Horizon incident to help provide you with some visual context for the content we've been working on.
- 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
