Fossil Fuels and Coal- end of week quiz

replaceable by natural means in a short period of time

• Nonrenewable

• Renewable

• Greenhouse gases

• Biomass

Why are fossil fuels considered nonrenewable resources if they are still forming beneath the surface today?

• They are being formed as a type of methane which we cannot use.
• They are being formed too far beneath the surface.
• The fossil fuels are being broken down by a natural process.
• We are depleting the fossil fuels much faster than they can form.

Coal is a __________ energy resource.

• Renewable
• Nonrenewable

Super heated steam is used to turn a ______________?

• Transformer

• Battery

• Turbine

• Toothed Gear

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What device transforms mechanical energy into electrical energy?

• Electric Motor

• Generator

What is the most plentiful fossil fuel? 

• Oil
• Natural Gas
• Petroleum 
• Coal

Why do we use non-renewable resources instead of renewable resources? 

• Less Expensive 
• More Energy
• All of the above

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What are fossil fuels?

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

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Where did the energy for fossil fuels come from?

• Animals
• Plants
• Sun
• Chemosynthesis

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Before coal has formed over millions of years, it is a wet, sampling of decaying plant material called...

• Peanut Butter

• Peat

• Mud

• Sedimentary Rock