Fossil Fuels

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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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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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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The four factors that contribute to the formation of fossil fuels are

• energy, sunlight, food and water

• natural gas, oil, and coal

• organic matter, temperature, time and temperature conditions

• plastic, medicine, cosmetics and jewelry

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What kind of organisms form coal?

• Zooplankton

• Algae

• Plants and trees

• Animals

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What conditions are needed to form coal?

• Heat and pressure

• Heat

• Moisture and pressure

• Cool and moist

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What does non-renewable mean?

• Something that lasts forever

• Something that can be renewed

• Something that will eventually run out

• Something that has run out

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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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

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What is petroleum?

• another name for oil

• another name for coal

• another name for natural gas

• a totally different fossil fuel

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