Fossil Fuels

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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NGSS.3-LS4-1

NGSS.4-ESS1-1

The surface of the land displays a mountain range and rivers. What might a scientist conclude about about the environment, based on the fossils in the sedimentary layers? 

• A. The land was once a rainforest. 
• The area was once covered by a desert. 
• C. The area was once a grassy plain. 
• D. The area was once near or covered by an ocean. 

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NGSS.3-LS4-1

NGSS.4-ESS1-1

How are Sedimentary Rocks formed?

• A. Cooling and Hardening
• B. Melting and heating
• C. Compacting and Cementing
• D. Time

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NGSS.4-ESS1-1

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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NGSS.4-ESS3-1

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.

• A. Mostly sand and a few small bits of wood
• B. Mostly decaying organisms
• C. Mostly lava and a few sedimentary rocks
• D. Mostly metal minerals

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NGSS.3-LS4-1

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

• A. Decomposed Animals

• B. Pressure

• C. Sedimentary Rocks

• D. Active Volcanoes

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

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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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

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?

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

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NGSS.4-ESS3-1

NGSS.5-ESS2-1

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

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

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NGSS.4-ESS1-1

Fossil Fuels form in sedimentary rocks when -

• A. plants use the nutrients in the sediments to grow
• B. organic matter is buried along with sediments
• C. rivers carry sediments down mountainsides
• D. sediments are used by humans as a resource

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1