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What powers London transport
Different fuels are considered and how energy to move transport is released during combustion. This lesson also looks at the story of steam tube trains and our changing understanding of the effects of emissions from combustion on health.
Learning outcomes:
- Could represent combustion reactions using symbol equations.
- Should be able to explain why burning fuel with sulphur in it created problems for steam driven tube trains.
- Should be able to describe the products of combustion of carbon and sulphur and represent this as word equations.
- Must describe how combustion reactions are used to provide energy for most transport.
This resource is part of a full set of lessons looking at different fuels and their contribution to pollution found here
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