Fossil Fuels

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 happens to fossil fuels to create electricity?

• They are stored

• They are burned

• They are melted

• They are frozen

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What is the problem with using fossil fuels?

• They create greenhouse gases

• They don't create a lot of electricity

• They are non-renewable

• They are renewable

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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 is the starting energy store when using fossil fuels?

• Chemical

• Kinetic

• Gravitational potential

• Elastic potential

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In a power station, what causes the turbine to turn?

• Heat

• Gas

• Air

• Steam

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What type of energy is involved when the turbine turns the generator?

• Thermal

• Chemical

• Elastic

• Kinetic

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

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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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