Fossil Fuels: What's the Story?

Why are fuels like coal, gasoline, and natural gas called fossil fuels?

• They come from plant and animal remains.

• They come from the fossil store.

• Because they give fuel to fossil animals.

• Because they don't move.

How long did it take for fossils to turn into fuel?

• One hundred years

• One thousand years

• ten thousand years

• Millions of years

True or False?

You can use coal, oil, or gas over and over again.

• True

• False

What's the problem with burning Fossil Fuels?

• It produces carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas.

• It smells really bad.

• It could catch on fire and be dangerous.

• Nothing, fossil fuels are good.

If too much carbon dioxide gets into the Earth's Atmosphere, what could happen?

• It could cause the Earth's temperature to rise and change our climate.

• It could cause the Earth's temperature to fall and make Earth cold.

• We wouldn't be able to breath anymore.

• It would smell bad.

What can be done to slow down global warming?

(There is more than one answer: Choose all that apply)

• Nations can switch to renewable energy.

• Try and use less energy (conserve)

• Nothing

• We can clean the air with giant air filters.

True or False?

Fossil Fuels are renewable fuels?

• True

• False

In paragraph one it says....

• That millions of years ago the Earth was covered by water.

• a 100 pound person is 18 pounds of carbon.

• That people should use renewable resources.

• Carbon is a green-house gas.

How many paragraphs make up this reading passage?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

What is the main idea of the story, "Fossil Fuels: What's the Story?"

• That dinosaurs are now fuel.

• Burning Fossil Fuels will cause our climate to get too warm, and they will run out.

• People burn fossil fuels for energy.

• That Natural gas is a fossil fuel.