This week's assignment will cover the different types of fossil fuels used in producing energy

Reading Assignment

• Ch. 5 from Resources of The Earth (handout)
• Coal
• Energy from fossil fuels

Project

• Do an internet search about petroleum resources generating an annotated bibliography of academically sound websites that discuss how petroleum resources form and why they occur where they do.
• Write an essay (not to exceed 5 pages)that
• compares and contrasts the formation of coal resources and petroleum resources and why they are found often in different localities
• discusses the geopolitics of petroleum resources