WorksheetsFossil Fuels/Sedimentary Rock
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 31mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
How are Sedimentary Rocks formed?
a)
Cooling and Hardening
b)
Heat and Pressure
c)
Compacting and Cementing
d)
Melting
2.
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
3.
Which of the following is a fossil fuel?
a)
Wind
b)
Coal
c)
Solar
d)
Biomass
4.
The Appalachian Mountains used to be pointed like the Rockies. What process lead to the roundedness of their peaks?
a)
Weathering
b)
Deposition
c)
Lightning Strikes
d)
Mining of the rock
5.
A fossil fuel is a natural fuel formed in the geological past from remains of living organisms.
a)
True
b)
False
6.
natural resources, such as fossil fuels, that will eventually be used up and can never be replalced
a)
renewable resource
b)
biofuels
c)
hydroelectric energy
d)
nonrenewable resources
7.
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
8.
Sedimentary rocks form when broken bits of other rock are deposited and then -
a)
buried and squeezed and cemented together
b)
melted by the heat of the Earth's core
c)
completely dissolved in the salt water of the ocean
d)
used by humans as a natural resource
9.
Oil formation occurs where, millions of years ago, there were large oceans. This is because oceans have -
a)
waves that are constantly moving
b)
great numbers of tiny marine animals
c)
currents that mix the water thoroughly
d)
deep caverns where no light can reach
10.
What causes rocks to break down? (Typically by wind or water)
a)
Weathering
b)
Erosion
c)
Deposition
d)
Cementation
11.
The placing of sediment in a new location after erosion is what?
a)
weathering
b)
compaction
c)
cementation
d)
deposition
12.
The pressing of sediments together after deposition is
a)
cementation
b)
compaction
c)
weathering
d)
erosion
13.
When sediments bind together through the crystilization of minerals
a)
cementation
b)
compaction
c)
deposition
d)
erosion
14.
Pieces of rock, sand and other materials that have been weathered and eroded are called
a)
small bits
b)
sand
c)
sediments
d)
dirt
15.
The breakdown of rock into smaller particles from the effects of wind, water and ice
a)
erosion
b)
cementation
c)
pressure
d)
weathering
16.
Wind, water, ice and gravity carry sediments away
a)
weathering
b)
deposition
c)
erosion
d)
cementation
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