Fossil fuels

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

• Coal

• Sun

• Petroleum

• Natural Gas

What are fossil fuels?

• Dinosaur bones

• Resources made from once living organisms 

• Combination of different rocks

• Gas Stations

Fossil fuels can be described as ...

• natural and renewable

• artificial and renewable

• natural and non-renewable

• artificial and non-renewable

What do we need fossil fuels for? 

• Electricity, transportation, chemicals and heating

• Food

• Sunlight

• Growing, building muscle, calcium

How does petroleum form?

• From layers of trees and leaves

• from once-living aquatic organisms underneath pressure and heat 

• from different rocks

• from gasses in the air and underground

Why is burning fossil fuels harmful? 

• Because we won't have any fossil fuels if we burn them all

• Because they can get extremely hot

• Because it increases the amount of greenhouse gases in the air

• Because this destroys fossils

Carbon is ...

• a black rock

• an element found in all living things

• a greenhouse gas

• a fossil fuel

What is true about coal?

• It consists of carbon and inorganic material

• It consists of minerals and organic materials

• It formed in recent years

• It can be used to generate electricity

What is NOT true about coal?

• When burnt it produces clay substances and sulphur salts

• When burnt it produces carbon dioxide, ashes and polluting substances

• It is found in coal fileds or coal beds

• It is made up of organic material only

The types of natural coal are

• lignite, bituminous coal and anthracite

• anthracite and coke

• coke, lignite and bitumen

• hard and soft coal