Products from oil

Cracking hydrocarbons
Why is cracking so important?

How are large hydrocarbon molecules cracked?

What is the test we use to see if a hydrocarbon is unsaturated or saturated?

Write two word equations to explain the test.

Making polymers from alkenes

List three ways that we use fuels

What are the small molecules that make up a polymer called?

Is ethane an alkane or an alkene? Explain your answer

What polymer can we make from propene monomers?

How do monomers join together? Draw a diagram to illustrate your answer.

New and useful polymers

What do we mean by a designer polymer?

What are hydrogels, and how do they work?

Why is PET used to make drink bottles?

Plastic waste
Why are waster plastics proving to be a problem for us?

What is a biodegradable plastic?

List the disadvantages of biodegradable plastics

How does recycling plastic waste help conserve out supplies of crude oil?
Ethanol
Which gas is given off when a sugar is fermented?

Yeast is a living thing. It is a type of fungus. What type of molecules in yeast

enable it to ferment sugar?

How do you make ethanol from ethane? What is this process called?

Where do we get the ethane from to make industrial ethanol?

Write a word equation to show the production of ethanol from 1. ethane, and 2.
glucose.