Fossil Fuels - Petroleum

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 of the following is not a type of fossil fuel? 

• Coal
• Light
• Petroleum
• Natural Gas

Why do we depend on fossil fuels? 

• Electricity, transportation, and heating
• Food
• Sunlight
• Growing, building muscle, calcium

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How does petroleum form

• build up of layers of trees and leaves
• build up of once-living aquatic organisms underneath pressure and heat. 
• Build up of different rocks
• It's formed from gasses in the air

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How does natural gas form? 

• lower pressures and temperatures
• the hydrosphere layer
• deepest sediment where there are higher pressures and temperatures 
• In the atmosphere 

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To find petroleum geologists and petroleum engineers

• Drill wells anywhere they can get permission because it is cheap and easy to drill a well

• Use complex computer models with data from high tech sonar and other wells

• Throw darts at a map

When crude oil is produced, what typically comes out of the ground with it

• Oil

• Water

• Sand/mud/rocks

• All of the above

Why are we now drilling for oil in really deep water and in environmentally sensitive areas?

• It is easier and cheaper to work in these areas

• There are no large human communities in these areas that will be disturbed

• The oil in areas that are easy to drill has already been used

There is a limited amount of fossil fuels.

• true

• false

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In 2018, the US imported the most oil from which of these countries?

• Canada

• Saudi Arabia

• Iran

• Venezuela