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reaction / hydrocarbons / mixture


Crude oil is a of many different compounds. Most of the compounds are .

mixture
hydrocarbons

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Illustration of crude oil barrels

Is crude oil is a finite or renewable resource?

Finite

Renewable

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How crude oil was made:


dinosaurs / plankton / pressure / buried / thousands / millions


  1. Crude oil is formed from the remains of dead plants and animals, particularly .
  2. These organic remains were covered by mud and sand, and in the earth.
  3. Over of years, these organic remains were compressed under a lot of heat and pressure.
  4. The heat and chemically changed the organic remains into crude oil.
plankton
buried
millions
pressure

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Crude oil is a fossil fuel. What else is an example of a fossil fuel?

(Select all that apply)

Wood

Natural gas

Geothermal energy

Coal

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Diagram showing the process of fractional distillation with a fractionating column, cooler at the top, and hot at the bottom.

How fractional distillation works:


condense / boiling / cool / warm / longer / shorter / gas / liquid / high / low


  1. Crude oil is a mixture of hydrocarbons with different points.
  2. The first step is to heat the crude oil to a very temperature so that all of the compounds are evaporated from liquid to .
  3. The hot gaseous hydrocarbons then rise up the fractionating column (because hot gas rises).
  4. As they rise, they down, because the top of the column is cooler than the bottom. 
  5. The hydrocarbons will when they become cooler than their boiling point, and the liquid hydrocarbons then collect in trays and drain out.
  6. The chain hydrocarbons condense at the bottom of the fractionating column because they have high boiling points.
  7. Meanwhile the chain hydrocarbons condense at the top of the column because they have much lower boiling points. 
boiling
high
gas
cool
condense
longer
shorter

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Diagram of a fractional distillation column showing the separation of hydrocarbons into kerosene, diesel, and heavy fuel oil.

Match the hydrocarbons A to C on the diagram above with the following products:


Petrol:

Liquified Petroleum Gas:

Bitumen:

A
B
C

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Which of the following hydrocarbons are used as a fuel?

(Select all that apply)

Diesel

Bitumen

Petrol

Kerosene

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When separating crude oil we use a fractionating column. 


Is the top of the column hotter or cooler than the bottom?

Hotter

Cooler

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A __________ is a raw material used to provide reactants for an industrial reaction. 

hydrocarbon

petrochemical 

feedstock

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A __________ is a substance made from crude oil via chemical reactions.

hydrocarbon

petrochemical 

feedstock

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True or false? Crude oil is a mixture of a very large number of compounds.

True

False

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True of false? Crude oil is the remains of an ancient biomass, consisting mainly of plankton that was buried in mud.

True

False

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