Blog Post #4
How might knowledge and understanding of the periodic table help you with the environmental concern? Which elements might be part of your environmental concern? Take a screen capture of the periodic table and annotate/note which elements might be included. Explain your choice/choices.
Note: you are not being marked for being right or wrong. You are being assessed on your explanation of why you chose that element.
Title: Periodic Table Connections
The periodic table helps me …
My environmental concern is ____________________.
The elements that likely will play a role with my environmental concern are..
The reason I believe these elements are connected to my environmental concern
Example:
Title: Periodic Table Connections
The periodic table helps me understand elements in their simplest form – whether they are a metal or non-metal, gas or a solid, and their properties which will become important as they are combined.
My environmental concern is the Alberta Oil Sands. The elements I believe may be connected to the Oil
Sands are hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, sulfur, and nitrogen
The reason I believe each of these elements are connected to the Alberta Oil Sands are as follows:
Hydrogen is part of water molecules. Bitumen is a mixture of sand and heavy crude oil which is extracted by injecting superheated water into from the oil sands. It is this that is then processed/ refined and used throughout society.
Oxygen – is also found in water molecules. Water is needed to extract Bitumen from which oil is made.
Carbon dioxide is released during oil sands operations. Carbon dioxide contains both the elements is both carbon and oxygen
Helium is found in natural gas. Natural gas is burned to heat the water used in the extraction of bitumen.
Sulphur is emitted into the environment when the operation of burning natural gas is performed to heat the water to extract bitumen
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