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WorksheetsFossil Fuels
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 9mins
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Class
Date
1.
Which of the following is not a type of fossil fuel?
a)
Coal
b)
Light
c)
Petroleum
d)
Natural Gas
2.
What are fossil fuels?
a)
Dinosaur bones
b)
Resources made from once living organisms
c)
Combination of different rocks
d)
Gas Stations
3.
Why do we depend on fossil fuels?
a)
Electricity, transportation, and heating
b)
Food
c)
Sunlight
d)
Growing, building muscle, calcium
4.
How does coal form?
a)
Pressure builds in wetlands
b)
Pressure builds in trees
c)
Pressure builds in peat bogs
d)
Forms at the North Pole
5.
How does petroleum form
a)
build up of layers of trees and leaves
b)
build up of once-living aquatic organisms underneath pressure and heat.
c)
Build up of different rocks
d)
It's formed from gasses in the air
6.
How does natural gas form?
a)
lower pressures and temperatures
b)
the hydrosphere layer
c)
deepest sediment where there are higher pressures and temperatures
d)
In the atmosphere
7.
Where did the energy for fossil fuels come from?
a)
Animals
b)
Plants
c)
Sun
d)
Chemosynthesis
8.
Why is burning fossil fuels harmful?
a)
then we won't have any fossil fuels if we burn them all
b)
They can get extremely hot
c)
Increases the amount of greenhouse gases in the air
d)
this would destroy fossils
9.
What is a greenhouse gas?
a)
a gas created from a plant
b)
gas that causes the atmosphere to get warmer
c)
a green colored gas
d)
a gas that kills you right away
10.
Drilling and transporting fossil fuels causes damage to natural habitats and can lead to land and water pollution.
a)
True
b)
False
11.
Which greenhouse gas is produced most by the automobile industry?
a)
Hydrogen
b)
Sulfur
c)
Methane
d)
Carbon Dioxide
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