Useful Products from Oil Crude
- Oil is a mixture of hydrocarbons.
- They can be separated and processed by cracking and polymerisation to make a variety of useful materials
Useful Products from Metal Ores
- How we obtain metals depend on how reactive the are
Useful Products from Rocks
- Limestone can be used as building material or as a raw material in cement, concrete and glass.
Useful Products from Air
- Nitrogen from the atmosphere can be turned into synthetic fertiliser.
- Overuse cause eutrophication
Representing Reactions
- Practice balancing equations
Changes to the Earth and Atmosphere
- The first atmosphere was mainly carbon dioxide.
- Plant produced all the oxygen in the atmosphere.
- This oxygen formed ozone which protects us from uv light.
The Rock Record
- Rocks contain evidence of how they were formed.
- Different types of rock are linked in the rock cycle.
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