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Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 39mins
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Class
Date
1.
How are Sedimentary Rocks formed?
a)
Cooling and Hardening
b)
Heat and Pressure
c)
Compacting and Cementing
d)
Melting
2.
Where can the oldest layer be found?
a)
The top layer
b)
The middle layer
c)
They are all the same age
d)
The bottom layer
3.
In what kind of rock can fossils be found?
a)
Sedimentary Rocks
b)
Igneous Rocks
c)
Metamorphic Rocks
d)
Granite
4.
What are the 3 main fossil fuels?
a)
Coal, Oil, and Gasoline
b)
Coal, Oil, and Natural Gas
c)
Electricity, Gasoline, Petroleum
d)
Coal, Oil, Non-renewable Resources
5.
Fossil Fuels formed over long periods of time after particles in water settled to the sea floor and formed marine mud. What kinds of particles needed to be present in the marine mud in order for fossil fuels to form.
a)
Mostly sand and a few small bits of wood
b)
Mostly decaying organisms
c)
Mostly lava and a few sedimentary rocks
d)
Mostly metal minerals
6.
Oil and natural gas were formed from ___________________
a)
marine organisms
b)
dead plants
c)
trees
7.
Which of the following is a fossil fuel?
a)
Wind
b)
Coal
c)
Solar
d)
Biomass
8.
Which of the following is a nonrenewable resource?
a)
milk
b)
coal
c)
biomass
d)
water
9.
What type of fossil fuel is mined from the ground?
a)
wind
b)
coal
c)
biomass
d)
air
10.
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
11.
Fossils give us evidence about which of the following?
a)
plants and animals that lived long ago
b)
how weathering and erosion break down rocks
c)
the other planets in our solar system
d)
the transfer of energy from one form to another
12.
Why do we depend on fossil fuels?
a)
Electricity, transportation, and heating
b)
Food
c)
Sunlight
d)
Growing, building muscle, calcium
13.
Where did the energy for fossil fuels come from?
a)
Animals
b)
Plants
c)
Sun
d)
Chemosynthesis
14.
How are Sedimentary Rocks formed?
a)
Cooling and Hardening
b)
Heat and Pressure
c)
Compacting and Cementing
d)
Melting
15.
In what kind of rock can fossils be found?
a)
Sedimentary Rocks
b)
Igneous Rocks
c)
Metamorphic Rocks
d)
Granite
16.
What must be present for Fossil Fuels to form?
a)
Bones and Sediment
b)
Dead Organisms and Layers of Sediment
c)
Dead Organisms, Layers of Sediment, and Heat & Pressure over time
d)
Bones, Layers of Sediment, and Heat & Pressure over time
17.
Some students made a model to show one of the first steps in the formation of sedimentary rock. The students pour 2 cm of light-colored sand into a clear plastic box. Then they add 1 cm of gravel. Finally, they pour 2 cm of dark-colored sand on top of the gravel. Which characteristic of sedimentary rock does this model best show?
a)
Sedimentary rock is made of layers.
b)
Sedimentary rock is cemented bits of rock.
c)
Sedimentary rock is often limestone.
d)
Sedimentary rock is common in Texas.
18.
All of these are related to the formation of oil or natural gas EXCEPT
a)
Decomposed Animals
b)
Decayed Plants
c)
Sedimentary Rocks
d)
Active Volcanoes
19.
What fossil fuel is in the image?
a)
Coal
b)
Natural Gas
c)
Petroleum
20.
What fossil fuel is in the image?
a)
Natural Gas
b)
Steam
c)
Coal
d)
Petroleum
21.
Energy stored by plants hundreds of millions of years ago that are buried underground are the energy we find in...
a)
electricity
b)
fossil fuels
c)
natural gas
d)
geothermal
22.
What type of energy is wind energy?
a)
nuclear
b)
mechanical
c)
electrical
d)
thermal
23.
All of the following are nonrenewable resources EXCEPT
a)
Coal
b)
animals
c)
petroleum (oil)
d)
natural gas
24.
I am-*a solid*mined from the ground*made from ancient dead trees*a nonrenewable resourceWhat am I?
a)
natural gas
b)
coal
c)
plants
d)
water
25.
I am-*A gas*all around*can be used for energy*a renewable resourceWhat am I?
a)
air
b)
coal
c)
plants
d)
natural gas
26.
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)
a renewable resource
b)
an inexhaustible resource
c)
a nonrenewable resource
d)
a non-usable resource
27.
What should be pictured in picture 2 to show a renewable resource?
a)
young trees which have just been planted
b)
level land with stumps removed
c)
a pond fish live in
d)
a log cabin that the trees were used to build
28.
Which of the following is a way a person could conserve natural resources?
a)
recycling waste materials like plastic, glass, paper, and aluminum
b)
limiting water use when showering, brushing teeth, and shaving
c)
using rechargeable batteries
d)
all of the above are good conservation practices
29.
Many stores now carry products that have less packaging or wrapping. Products with reduced packaging are most likely available because--
a)
they reduce trash that eventually ends up in landfills
b)
they help conserve resources, especially plastics
c)
they provide a compacted packaging choice for consumers
d)
all of the above
30.
If the factory in this diagram was NOT practicing good environmental conservation, what effect would be produced?
a)
air and water pollution
b)
good fishing for recreation
c)
plentiful animals in the river
d)
purified drinking water
31.
A way the factory could help conserve the river water as a natural resource is to--
a)
filter the water before dumping into the river
b)
remove all of the animals from the area for their protection
c)
set up nets down river to remove contaminated fish
d)
post signs of "No swimming in the river"
32.
Any useful material that is found in nature:
a)
Natural Resource
b)
Human Resource
c)
Plants
33.
Which group includes ALL renewable resources?
a)
Coal, trees, water, oil
b)
Water, wind, sun, plants
c)
Minerals, sun, natural gas, water
34.
Fossil fuels are nonrenewable because...
a)
they are used to produce heat
b)
they take a long time to form
c)
they can be found underground
35.
What does conserving resources mean?
a)
Use as much of the resources as you can
b)
Only use the resources at school
c)
Protecting the resource so it does not run out
36.
A Fossil Fuel is
a)
Materials that are found on Earth that people use
b)
Rock that contains metal
c)
Fuels that formed years ago from the remains of things that lived millions of years ago.
d)
Resources that cannot be replaced quickly enough to keep from running out.
37.
The Jones family cares about the environment. They run their dishwasher only when it is completely full. Which of the following BEST explains why they do this?
a)
To save money
b)
To recycle dish soap
c)
To reduce sewage
d)
To conserve water
38.
Pollutants from a factory that enter the water in a watershed will have a negative effect on which of the following?
a)
Available space for crops
b)
Local pond life
c)
Rainfall rates
d)
Direction of river flow
39.
Choose the renewable resources.
a)
trees
b)
fossil fuels
c)
sun
d)
both trees and sun
40.
Oil drips from cars onto a parking lot. Then it washes into a pond where fish get sick and die. What is this an example of?
a)
Adaptation
b)
Pollution
c)
Population
d)
Restoration
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