fossil fuels

Several hundred years in the future, in a world where fossil fuels are no longer used as a power source, a thirteen-year-old boy named Keith joins a jet pack project that will give people the ability to fly.

"Where do we get fossil fuels? Why do we use them so much? Fossil Fuels answers these questions and much more!"--.

Carbon dioxide fills the air as airplanes fly through the sky, packaging from travel-sized snacks piles high in landfills, and paper travel tickets are adding to global deforestation.

Trees are chopped down to supply classrooms with paper, disposable pens pile high in landfills, and pollution from transporting ingredients for school lunches hangs in our air.

Trashed toys land in landfills, chemicals in batteries and e-waste make them dangerous to destroy, and toy packaging is causing a pollution panic.

Piles of paper towels wind up in landfills, plastic toothbrushes lose their use long before they leave Earth, and dish soap harms our underwater friends.

"Coal, oil, and natural gas supply the vast majority of the energy that we use in modern life, whether that means generating electricity for lights and computers or fueling the engines that power our cars, buses, and airplanes. Readers will learn how these ancient fuels formed, as well as how human beings extract them from the ground for our use. They'll also learn about the downsides of fossil fuels, such as their limited supply and the environmental damage that burning them produces"--Amazon.

"Where do we get fossil fuels? Why do we use them so much? [This book] answers these questions and . . . more!"--Provided by publisher.

"This book examines how the energy that people use affects the environment, as well as what people are doing to make energy more Earth-friendly"--Provided by publisher.

Readers will learn about how chemists study the building blocks of our world, and how materials can be changed by applying different chemical and physical reactions.