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Chapter 14: Fossil Fuels - Coggle Diagram
Chapter 14: Fossil Fuels
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Exploiting Crude Oil
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oil shale is a fine sedimentary rock containing a mixture of solid, waxlike hydrocarbons called kerogen
oil sand is a sedimentary material containing bitumen, an extremely vicious, tarlike hydrocarbon
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Mining Coal
surface mining or strip mining, dynamite is used to break overlying layers, and then gigantic power shovels turn aside the rock and remove the coal
mountaintop mining is the worst form of surface mining in coal. it destroys the tops of mountains from dynamite. after moving on to the next mountain, the top never returns to how it originally was
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Energy Policy
only federal policies can sweep power to effect changes that will make a difference to reduce fossil fuels and go to renewable energy