Mining for Fossil Fuels

Fossil Fuels

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Small, solid pieces of materials from rocks or living things

• sediment

• clastic rock

• organic rock

• deposition

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The process in which dissolved minerals crystallize and glue sediment together.

• cementation

• deposition

• organic rock

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What must be present for Fossil Fuels to form?

• Bones and Sediment

• Dead Organisms and Layers of Sediment

• Dead Organisms, Layers of Sediment, and Heat & Pressure over time

• Bones, Layers of Sediment, and Heat & Pressure over time

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A consequence of mining for coal is

• Coal dust causes respiratory problems

• Coal mines can collapse

• Strip mining gets rid of all the soil that plants can use to grow on

• All of these

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Fossil fuels are classified as nonrenewable because they.......

• require expensive equipment

• take millions of years to replace

• can be found all over

• provide all the energy we use

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The Earth provides humans with an unlimited amount of fossil fuels. They are considered renewable.

• True

• False

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What had to be applied in order to make buried organic matter into fossil fuels?

• A. Industrial Pollution

• B. Ocean Currents

• C. Volcanic Activity

• D. Heat and pressure

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What are the 3 main fossil fuels?

• A. Coal, oil, and vegetable oil.

• B. Coal, Oil, and Natural Gas

• C. Electricity, Gasoline, Petroleum

• D. Coal, Oil, Non-renewable Resources

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Which fossil layer is the youngest?

• A. Layer A

• B. Layer B

• C. Layer C

• D. Layer D

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The diagram shows layers of sedimentary rock and examples of the fossils each layer contains, Which layer contains the oldest fossils?

• A. Layer 2

• B. Layer 4

• C. Layer 1

• D. Layer 3

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Some DISADVANTAGES of Fossil Fuels are (Select ALL that apply)

• air pollution

• acid rain

• climate change

• a lot of energy

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To introduce poisonous or harmful substances into the environment is called

• decomposition

• decay

• consumption

• pollution

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This is how oil is extracted (pulled) from underground.

• mining

• shoveling

• scraping

• drilling

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Coal is formed from

• rocks

• a factory

• remains of small organisms that lived many millions of years ago in our oceans

• plant remains along with heat and pressure

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This fossil fuel is formed from the remains of small organisms that lived in the ocean AND is a thick, black liquid

• natural gas

• coal

• oil

• steam

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This Fossil Fuel is highly flammable (catches on fire easily) and a leak could cause a violent explosion or fire.

• petroleum

• wood

• coal

• natural gas

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This fossil fuel has been created by the remains of plants and must be mined from deep within the Earth.

• oil

• coal

• natural gas

• solar

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Fossil Fuels are

• pieces of rock that have been compacted many times

• rock that contains 50% plant and animal remains

• metamorphic rock

• fuels that form from the remains of plant and other organisms that were buried and altered over million of years

Mining for Coal

If you came to pick up the friendship party material, you would have also received a worksheet, cookie and toothpick. You are going mining! Complete the worksheet! If you did not pick up your supplies, I have attached the worksheet on google classroom. Have fun!!