Diesel vs Gasoline

What are these?

• glow plugs

• spark plugs

• electrical bulbs

• fuel injection pumps

An area where fuel is ignited before entering a combustion chamber

• combustion chamber

• precombustion chamber

• compression ratio

• fuel injection pump

A light form of fuel that is heavy, expensive and not heavily refined

• gasoline

• diesel

• olive oil

• butter

A device that heats the air inside a cold engine

• hairdryer

• glow plug

• spark plug

• radiator

A type of fuel that is refined so that it emits fewer pollutants

• clean diesel

• dirty diesel

• dry diesel

• white diesel

A light form of fuel that cars commonly runs on

• diesel

• gasoline

• oil

• clean diesel

Both gasoline and diesel engines have combustion chambers

• True

• False

A diesel engine uses a spark plug to ignite the fuel

• True

• False

Diesel engines have a lower compression ratio than gasoline engines

• True

• False

Diesel is more polluting than gasoline

• True

• False