Lab 5: Exploring for Petroleum Key Q: How is petroleum found?
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Underground Resources
• Petroleum-found deep underground-used for heating oil, gasoline, paints, and plastics
• Kerosene-fuel oil burned in lamps and heaters
• These are very valuable resources to the SW region
Fields of Plenty
• Lots of farmland• Sugar cane and rice grow here• Also wheat and barley• Vegetable-potatoes, cauliflower, broccoli, and lettuce
irrigation
• Using pipes or ditches to bring water to fields
• Some are worried about this because they feel there will not enough water for everyone
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amrCMakolKA
Grazing Fields
• OK and TX are very dry
• Not enough water for trees, but grass can still grow well
• These grasses field grazing animals-sheep, cattle, horses
Computer technology
• Silicon-a natural material that is found in rocks and sand. This is used to make computer chips
Solar Energy
• Energy that comes from the sun!
• This region the sun is almost always shining
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4CTceusK9I
Ships and Spaceships
• TX -Major centers for shipping oil and other goods
• HOUSTON, TX-space ship-space program is located here
• Why located here? Clear skies for used of telescopes
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjkA1oBf6AM