Fossil Fuels (Fractional Distillation)

Explore Fossil Fuels and Fractional Distillation with this jumbo-sized, double-sided A3 worksheet.

Focused content:

• Fossil fuel origin and importance to modern life /industry.
• Fossil fuel types (coal, oil and gas).
• Environmental effects of fossil fuel consumption (global warming and air pollution).
• Combustion and pollutants emitted (C02, CO, NO2, SO2).
• Fractional Distillation of crude oil.
• Hydrocarbon chain lengths and their role in fractioning.
• Fuel / Petrochemical products, applications, and their properties (viscosity/flammability).
• Questions to develop retrieval and understanding capability.
• Crossword to reinforce keyword retention.

Recommended for upper KS3 and as revision for GCSE.

This worksheet is designed to be used in landscape orientation and can be printed in A4 format but A3 is advised for the maximum learning experience of the student.