Fossil Fuels

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

How are fossils created?

• A. Traces of organisms harden like rock. 
• B. Dead organisms are quickly buried for millions of years.
• C. Animals get trapped.
• D. All of the above

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NGSS.3-LS4-1

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

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