How does a plant become oil? /

Tagliaferro, Linda.

How does a plant become oil? / Linda Tagliaferro. - Chicago : Raintree, [2010] �2010. - 32 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 28 cm. - How does it happen? Raintree perspectives . - How does it happen? Raintree perspectives. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 31) and index.

Oil from plants -- Tiny food "factories" -- From mud to rocks -- Energy from the sun -- Past uses of oil -- Digging deep -- Oil! -- What is crude oil? -- At the refinery -- Crude oil products -- From gasoline to energy -- Running low? -- Future fuels -- Find out more.

Wilson's Children, October 2010. Library Media Connection, March 2010. Wilson's Children. Library Media Connection.

Text, photographs, and diagrams describe the scientific processes that turn plants into oil, and discuss the dangers of using fossil fuels.

5.2 Follett Library Resources. 3-6 Follett Library Resources.

9781410934437 (lib. bdg.) 9781410934512 (pbk.) 1410934438 1410934519

2008052290


Petroleum--Juvenile literature.
Gasoline--Juvenile literature.
Fossil fuels--Juvenile literature.
Petroleum.
Gasoline.
Fossil fuels.
Petroleum.
Gasoline.
Fossil fuels.
Fossil fuels.
Petroleum.
Nonrenewable natural resources.

TN870 / .T24 2010

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