Fossil Fuels

Today's Objective: 5.7A Fossil Fuel Formation

• We will be able to identify the processes that create fossil fuels.

• I will be able to describe the processes that create fossil fuels.

Three Major Types of Fossil Fuels

• Oil or Petroleum

• Natural Gas

• Coal

Multiple Choice

Which one of the following is NOT an example of a fossil fuel?

• Corn oil

• Petroleum

• Oil

• Natural Gas

Fossil Fuel are formed in...

• Oxygen Rich environments

• Bottom of deep lakes

• Swamps

• Shallow Seas

Multiple Choice

Fossil fuels are formed in what kind of environment?

• Low levels of Oxygen

• Oxygen Rich Environments

• Positive and Friendly

• Barren and Desolate

Multiple Choice

Which of the following types of areas would I expect to find fossil fuels formed later?

• Canyons

• Desert

• Swamp

• Mountains

Fossil Fuel Formation Process

• Animals and Plants live and grow in an oxygen rich environment.

• Animals and Plants die

• Sediments bury the dead animal/plant

• Extreme Pressure from Compaction/Cementation

• Millions of years + heat + pressure

Multiple Choice

The first step in the formation of fossil fuels is..

• Plants and Animals need to live.

• Plants and animals die.

• Compaction

• Burial

Multiple Choice

The second step to the formation of fossil fuels would be..

• Plants and Animals live and grow.

• Compaction

• Plants and animals die.

• Plants and animals are buried.

Multiple Choice

The third step to formation of fossil fuels would be...

• Plants and Animals Die

• Plants and animals are buried under sediments.

• Compaction

• Cementation.

Multiple Choice

The fourth step in the formation of fossil fuels is they go throw compaction and cementation which needs..

• Happy thoughts

• Water

• Pressure

• Sediments

Multiple Choice

The final step of the formation of fossil fuels requires...

• thousands of years

• a couple days

• millions of years

• one full school year

Multiple Select

Fossil Fuels require which 3 things in order to form:

• Millions of years

• Pressure

• Heat

• Scientists

Multiple Choice

Which list contains only processes that must occur in order for fossil fuels to form?

• Formation of faults, burial, glacier formation

• Organism growth, burial, volcanic eruptions

• Organism growth, burial, compaction

• Erosion Burial Earthquakes

Multiple Choice

What most likely happened to the dead plants and animals?

• They were eaten by scavengers.

• They became fossil fuels.

• They were washed away by water.

• They became an underground aquifer.

Multiple Choice

How do plants like the ones growing on the surface of a pond form fossil fuels?

• The dead plants sink to the bottom of the pond and get buried by sediment for millions of years.

• The dead plants get buried for millions of years and form fossil fuels that attract carbon.

• The dead plants sink to the bottom of the pond and are consumed by decomposers

• The dead plants produce carbon that is consumed by fish, which form fossils.

Multiple Choice

Fossil fuels formed over long periods of time after particles in water settled to the sea floor and formed marine mud. What kinds of particles needed to be present in the marine mud in order for fossil fuels to form?

• Mostly sand and a few small bits of wood.

• Mostly decaying organisms

• Mostly lava and a few sedimentary rocks.

• Mostly metal minerals.

Multiple Choice

All of these are related to the formation of oil or natural gas EXCEPT -

• decomposed animals

• decaying plants

• sedimentary rocks

• active volcanoes