About fuel

Fossil fuels take

• a year to form

• millions of years to form

• a day to form

• hundreds of years to form

Fossil fuels are nonrenewable resources

• True

• False

Fossil fuels form from

• Living plants and some living animals

• Plants and animals that just died

• Dead plants and animals that lived millions of years ago

• None of the above

We do not need to conserve fossil fuels

• True

• False

Choose the way/ways you can conserve fossil fuels

• Using the car

• Keep the lights on all the time

• Walk to places that are near your house

• Turn off the lights when you are not in the room

Which of these is not a step in coal formation.

• I eat a sandwich to get enegy

• Remains were buried.

• Living things that lived a long time ago died.

• Heat and pressure affected the remains.

The first step in generating electricity from coal is

• Water is heated to make steam

• A generator transforms kinetic energy into electrical energy.

• This kinetic energy is used to turn a generator

• The coal is burned to make thermal energy