Fossil fuels

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What is a fuel

A fuel is a substance with stored energy that burns in oxygen to release it

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Why do we need to conserve fossil fuels

Because they are finite - meaning we will eventually run out of them

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What fossilised remains made coal

Dead plants that fell into swamps

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What is a hydrocarbon

A chemical which only contains hydrogen and carbon

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Complete combustion creates which two substances

Carbon dioxide and water

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Incomplete combustion creates what

Carbon monoxide