Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Chemistry
- Three rock types
- Sedimentary
- Layers of sediments, grains stuck together
- Example: Sandstone
- Igneous
- Magma cooling down
- Example: Granite
- Metamorphic
- Sedimentary rock compressed
- Example: Marble
- Limestone
- Quarrying Limestone
- For:
- - a quarry provides jobs for local people
- - an important material used for buildings
- - limestone is exported to other countries, important for the UK economy
- Against:
- - noisy machinery, disturbs local residents and wildlife
- - transporting limestone away from a quarry causes pollution
- - unavailable space for other uses e.g. farming
- Electrolysis of water
- Hydrogen - squeaky pop
- Oxygen - re-lights a splint
- Carbon Dioxide - milky solution > limewater
- Chlorine - litmus paper
- Neutralisation
- acid+alkali -> salt+water
- A neutralisation reaction is where
an acid reacts with the base (alkali)
to produce a neutral solution of a
salt and water.
- Atmosphere
- The changing atmosphere
- Carbon dioxide - dissolved into oceans
- Plants - photosynthesised
- Animals - breathed in oxygen
- water vapour - condensed and formed oceans
- The early atmosphere
- Volcanoes released:
- - carbon dioxide
- - water vapour
- - small amounts of methane and ammonia
- And there was NO oxygen
- Present atmosphere
- Nitrogen - 78%
- Oxygen 21%
- Argon - 0.9%
- Carbon Dioxide - 0.04%