Fossil fuel formation

How are fossil fuels formed?

• They are made in factories

• Dead plants and animals died millions of years ago and were buried under heat and pressure

• Dead plants were buried under heat and pressure

• Dead animals were buried under heat and pressure

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How old are fossil fuels?

• Millions of years old

• A few decades old

• Hundreds of years old

• They are new

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What do fossil fuels need to form?

• High pressure and low heat

• High pressure and high heat

• Low pressure and low heat

• Low pressure and high heat

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Do Fossil Fuels get their energy from the Sun?

• yes

• no

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How is it that fossil fuels get their energy from the Sun?

• Animals trap the Sun's energy and give it to fossil fuels.

• The sun directly gives its energy to fossil fuels.

• Fossil fuels absorb energy directly from the sun.

• Plants absorb energy from the sun. Some animals eat those plants to gain energy. When the plants and the animals die, some get turned into fossil fuels.

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Which fossil fuel is formed only from dead plants in swamps?

• Rubber

• Petroleum

• Coal

• Natural Gas

Decaying and decomposing are synonyms. What is another synonym for decay and decompose?

• drop

• carry away

• sediments

• dead

What could this environment form if the area is buried for a long time?

• Natural Gas

• Coal

• Oil

• Petroleum

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What could this environment form if the area was buried for a long time?

• Coal

• Delta

• Island

• Natural Gas/ Oil

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Students are learning about how fossil fuels are created in class. The student goes home and shares with his parents what he learned in school:

1. A long time ago, dead organisms die.

2. Then, layers of sediments are deposited on top of them.

3. The layers on top weigh down on the dead organisms and compacts them.

4. Finally, we have the fossil fuels we use today!

What should be added to the student's explanation to make it more accurate?

• Change step 1 by adding that the organism is also decaying.

• Change step 2 by adding that the organisms are buried under the sediments

• Change step 3 by adding that Earth's core heats the dead organisms too

• Change step 4 by adding that we have unlimited amount of fossil fuels to use

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