Fossil Fuels

The cleanest burning fossil fuel is ______.

• coal
• oil
• wind
• natural gas

Fossil fuels are classified as nonrenewable because they.......

• require expensive equipment
• take millions of years to replace
• can be found all over 
• provide all the energy we use

What are fossil fuels?

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

Why do we depend on fossil fuels? 

• Electricity, transportation, and heating
• Food
• Sunlight
• Growing, building muscle, calcium

Drilling and transporting fossil fuels causes damage to natural habitats and can lead to land and water pollution. 

• True
• False

Factories where crude oil is separated into fuels and other products are called

• incinerators.
• deposits.
• reserves.
• refineries.

The remains that transformed into fossil fuels were buried for

• a few hundred years.

• millions of years.

• less than 20,000 years.

• hardly any time at all.

A machine that converts mechanical energy, or motion, into electrical energy

• Fossil Fuels

• Electric generator

• Petroleum

• Oil Reserves

A wheel that changes the force of a moving gas or a liquid into energy

• Fossil Fuels

• Turbine

• Petroleum

• Oil Reserves

What are the 3 main fossil fuels?

• Coal, Oil, and Gasoline

• Uranium, Gasoline, Petroleum

• Coal, Oil, Biomass

• Coal, Oil, Natural Gas