Fossil Fuels

What are fossil fuels?

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

What conditions are needed to form coal?

• Heat and pressure

• Heat

• Moisture and pressure

• Cool and moist

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

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

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 a greenhouse gas?

• a gas created from a plant
• gas that causes the atmosphere to get warmer
• a green colored gas
• a gas that kills you right away

What kind of organisms form coal?

• Zooplankton

• Algae

• Plants and trees

• Animals

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

Drilling and transporting fossil fuels causes damage to natural habitats and can lead to land and water pollution. 

• True
• False