Fossil Fuels

Fossil Fuels are

• pieces of rock that have been compacted many times

• rock that contains 50% plant and animal remains

• metamorphic rock

• fuels that form from the remains of plant and other organisms that were buried and altered over million of years

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

Why is burning fossil fuels harmful? 

• then we won't have any fossil fuels if we burn them all
• They can get extremely hot
• Increases the amount of greenhouse gases in the air
• this would destroy fossils

Which greenhouse gas is produced most by the automobile industry? 

• Hydrogen
• Sulfur
• Methane
• Carbon Dioxide

Fossil fuels are classified as nonrenewable because they.......

• require expensive equipment
• take millions of years to replace
• can be found all over 
• provide all the energy we use

After the plants are buried and compressed then under the action of heat and high pressure the buried plant turns into 

• oil
• Natural gas
• Coal 
• Nitrogen gas

Which is the biggest pollution contributor from coal burning?

• Carbon Dioxide

• Carbon Monoxide

• Nitrous oxide

• Sludge

Today, most of the coal is used to:

• power steamships and steam trains
• heat homes and businesses
• produce electricity
• make iron and steel

Which of these mining techniques is more dangerous?

• Surface mining

• Deep mining or underground mining