Earth Resource Natural Gas

Natural gas is a ________ that's used to heat buildings, cook food, dry clothes, heat water, and even to help produce __________________.

• mixture; electricity

• fuel; electricity

• mixture; methane

• fuel; methane

______________ is colorless, odorless, and lighter than air. It gives off a lot of heat and light when it burns, but doesn't produce smoke.

• electricity

• reliable

• fuel

• methane

Natural gas is a good fuel for use in the home. Today more than half the homes in the U.S. are ____________ by natural gas.

• electricity

• heated

• fuel

• brighter

Oil and Natural gas are both known as types of what? 

• Coal
• Geothermal Energy 
• Renewable Resources
• Petroleum 

Oil comes from deep underground. When people have used all of the oil on Earth, it will be gone. What kind of resource is oil?

• a renewable resource
• an inexhaustible resource
• a nonrenewable resource
• a non-usable resource

Fossil fuels are nonrenewable because...

• they are used to produce heat.

• they take a long time to form.

• they can be found underground.

Fossil fuel formed from marine organisms often found in folded or tilted layers and used for heating & cooking

• Oil

• Natural gas

• Coal

• Wood

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Crude oil is made up of:

• Ethane

• Butane

• A mixture of different hydrocarbons

• Extremely large hydrocarbons which are broken up once extracted

Formed from dead marine organisms

• Oil and Natural Gas
• Coal
• Fossil Fuels

The fossil fuel represented in this picture is ____.

• coal

• natural gas

• petroleum

• crude oil