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WorksheetsFossil Fuels Review
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 11mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
5. The Earth provides humans with an unlimited amount of fossil fuels. They are considered renewable.
a)
True
b)
False
2.
6. Gasoline comes from which fossil fuel?
a)
Coal
b)
Petroleum
c)
Natural Gas
3.
7. Which fossil fuel is the remains of ancient plants?
a)
Coal
b)
Petroleum
c)
Natural Gas
4.
Formed from dead marine organisms
a)
Oil and Natural Gas
b)
Coal
c)
Fossil Fuels
5.
Fossil fuels are classified as nonrenewable because they.......
a)
require expensive equipment
b)
take millions of years to replace
c)
can be found all over
d)
provide all the energy we use
6.
Crude oil is also called what?
a)
biomass
b)
fossils
c)
coal
d)
petroleum
7.
Energy sources that cannot be replaced once they are used up
a)
Renewable Energy Sources
b)
Non Renewable Energy Sources
8.
This is the cleanest burning of the fossil fuels:
a)
Natural Gas
b)
Coal
c)
Petroleum
d)
Shale
9.
What are fossil fuels?
a)
complex hydrocarbon compounds
b)
mixtures of gaseous hydrocarbons located under the surface of the Earth
c)
a nonrenewable energy resource formed the remains of organisms that lived long ago
10.
The warming of our planet can lead to the following:
a)
floods
b)
loss of habitat
c)
droughts
d)
all of the above
11.
3. What fossil fuel is in the image?
a)
Natural Gas
b)
Steam
c)
Coal
d)
Petroleum
12.
2. What fossil fuel is in the image?
a)
Coal
b)
Natural Gas
c)
Petroleum
13.
How long does it take for them to form?
a)
Millions of years
b)
2 days
c)
1 day
d)
5 weeks
14.
What is a problem that is linked to the burning of fossil fuels?
a)
Global Warming
b)
geothermal energy
c)
solar power panels
d)
none of the above
15.
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
a)
The rising of sea level over time
b)
The Earth's atmosphere losing heat
c)
The trapping of the Sun's warmth in the Earth'satmosphere
d)
The way we get energy to our holmes
16.
The greenhouse gas having the greatest role in human-caused global warming is
a)
methane
b)
carbon dioxide
c)
CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons)
d)
ozone
17.
Human activity is adding additional greenhouse gases to the amount that are in the atmosphere naturally
a)
True
b)
False
18.
What is the "greenhouse effect?"
a)
Greenhouse gases trap in UV radiation and warm the earth.
b)
Greenhouse gases trap infrared radiation and warm the earth.
c)
Greenhouse gases trap Carbon Dioxide and warm the earth.
d)
Greenhouse gases trap carbon dioxide so plants can grow.
19.
Global average warming is the result of
a)
The Ozone Hole
b)
Natural Earth Climate Cycles
c)
A Human-Caused Increase in Greenhouse Gases
d)
Aliens
20.
The main human activity that releases greenhouse gases is
a)
using bottled water
b)
burning fossil fuels
c)
texting on cellphones
d)
eating meat
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