Fossil Fuels and Sedimentary Rock Formation

If looking at layers of sediment in the Earth, which layer is the youngest?

• the top

• the middle

• the bottom

• second to the top

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What processes happen inside the Earth when making sedimentary rocks?

• weathering

• deposition

• increased pressure, compaction and cementation

• erosion

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Coal was formed where?

• lakes

• swamps

• rivers

• oceans

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What needs to present in mud sediments for fossil fuels to form?

•  mostly sand

• mostly decaying organisms

• mostly rocks

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Coal was formed in 

• swamps

• oceans

What needs to present in mud sediments for fossil fuels to form?

• mostly sand

• decaying organisms

• mostly rocks

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when sediments are squeezed together by pressure to form sedimentary rock

• compaction

• cementation

• boiling

• freezing

when sediments are stuck together by minerals left after water evaporates to form sedimentary rock

• compaction

• cementation

• boiling

• freezing

How do dead plants form fossil fuels?

• dead plants turn to fossils

• dead plan ts sink to the bottom of pond and get buried by sediments for millions of years

• they produce carbon dioxide

Order of fossil fuel formation

• cementation, compaction, cementation

• organism growth, burial , compaction

• compaction, cementation, burial

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