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Coal and Petroleum

Gujarat Board · Class 8 · Science

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1

Natural Resources: Exhaustible and Inexhaustible

  • Natural resources are materials obtained from nature that are used by living beings.
  • Inexhaustible Natural Resources: Present in unlimited quantity; cannot be exhausted by human activities. Examples: Sunlight, Air.
  • Exhaustible Natural Resources: Present in limited quantity; can be exhausted by human activities. Examples: Coal, Petroleum, Natural Gas, Forests, Wildlife, Minerals.
2

Coal: Formation, Types of Products and Uses

  • Coal is a hard, black substance found under the earth. It is mainly made up of carbon.
  • FORMATION OF COAL: About 300 million years ago, dense forests in low-lying wetland areas got buried under soil due to natural processes like flooding. Over time, more soil deposited, compressing the d
  • The slow process of conversion of dead vegetation into coal is called CARBONISATION.
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Petroleum: Formation, Refining and Products

  • Petroleum is a dark oily liquid with an unpleasant odour found between rocks under the earth. The word comes from 'petra' (rock) and 'oleum' (oil).
  • FORMATION OF PETROLEUM: Petroleum was formed from organisms (plants and animals) living in the sea. When these organisms died, their bodies settled at the sea bottom and got covered with layers of san
  • The layer containing petroleum and natural gas is above the water layer because oil and gas are lighter than water and do not mix with it.
4

Petroleum Products and Their Uses (Important Table)

  • 1. LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas) → Fuel for home cooking and industry
  • 2. Petrol → Motor fuel (cars, scooters), aviation fuel, solvent for dry cleaning
  • 3. Kerosene → Fuel for stoves and lamps, fuel for jet aircraft

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Fossil fuels are energy sources formedCoal is a blackWhen coal is processed in industryPetroleum (meaning 'rock oil') was formedPetroleum refining is the process

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