Fossil fuels

How are Sedimentary Rocks formed?

• Cooling and Hardening
• Heat and Pressure
• Compacting and Cementing
• Melting

Where can the oldest layer be found?

• The top layer
• The middle layer
• They are all the same age
• The bottom layer

In what kind of rock can fossils be found?

• Sedimentary Rocks
• Igneous Rocks
• Metamorphic Rocks
• Granite

What are the 3 main fossil fuels?

• Coal, Oil, and Gasoline
• Coal, Oil, and Natural Gas
• Electricity, Gasoline, Petroleum
• Coal, Oil, Non-renewable Resources

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

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

• Decomposed Animals
• Decayed Plants
• Sedimentary Rocks
• Active Volcanoes

A student creates a model of the formation of fossil fuels by first placing a layer of leaves, representing organic matter, in the bottom of a cup.  What step will come next in the model?

• Pouring water over the leaves to model washing away by rivers
• adding sand on top of the leaves to model burial in sediments
• Burning the leaves to model the decay of organic matter
• Putting the leaves in the freezer to model conditions on top of mountains

Sedimentary rocks form when broken bits of other rock are deposited and then -

• buried and squeezed and cemented together
• melted by the heat of the Earth's core
• completely dissolved in the salt water of the ocean 
• used by humans as a natural resource

Which area is most likely to have fossil fuels present today?

• A
• B
• C
• D

Fossils give us evidence about which of the following?

• plants and animals that lived long ago
• how weathering and erosion break down rocks
• the other planets in our solar system
• the transfer of energy from one form  to another