Class responce #2

In class we pretended to be geologists and searched for oil in the earth. We read where oil is found, How its made, and how it is recovered. Oil comes from dead organisms that get buried and they turn into oil. Once we learned where oil comes from we looked at the conditions where oil reservoirs can be. There are three things that oil needs a source, a trap, and a reservoir. We took three maps that had all of theses things separated and we traced them on to one blank piece of paper. We saw where all three conditions overlap and guessed where the oil might be. We took a chop stick and a needle to act as a drill. We covered a tin container with aluminum that was filled with rocks and three cups of syrup but we didn't know where they where placed. We used our maps of the conditions to guess where the oil(syrup)was. We filled in a chart with information on what we did and in the end with the oil we found we made 49.2 million dollars.