Fossil Fuels

What kind of organisms form coal?

• Zooplankton

• Algae

• Plants and trees

• Animals

What conditions are needed to form coal?

• Heat and pressure

• Heat

• Moisture and pressure

• Cool and moist

What happens to fossil fuels to create electricity?

• They are stored

• They are burned

• They are melted

• They are frozen

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

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Which of the following is not a type of fossil fuel? 

• Coal
• Light
• Petroleum
• Natural Gas

What are fossil fuels?

• Dinosaur bones
• Resources made from once living organisms 
• Combination of different rocks
• Gas Stations

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Why do we depend on fossil fuels? 

• Electricity, transportation, and heating
• Food
• Sunlight
• Growing, building muscle, calcium

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How does coal form?

• Pressure builds in wetlands
• Pressure builds in trees
• Pressure builds in peat bogs
• Forms at the North Pole

How does petroleum form

• build up of layers of trees and leaves
• build up of once-living aquatic organisms underneath pressure and heat. 
• Build up of different rocks
• It's formed from gasses in the air

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