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Worksheetsfossil fules
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 17mins
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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 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
5.
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
6.
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
7.
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
8.
Drilling and transporting fossil fuels causes damage to natural habitats and can lead to land and water pollution.
a)
True
b)
False
9.
Which greenhouse gas is produced most by the automobile industry?
a)
Hydrogen
b)
Sulfur
c)
Methane
d)
Carbon Dioxide
10.
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
11.
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
12.
Which of these is not a fossil fuel?
a)
Coal
b)
Oil
c)
Olive Oil
d)
Natural Gas
13.
What is coal made of?
a)
decomposed animal and plant remains
b)
water
c)
electricity
d)
all of the above
14.
What had to be applied in order to make buried organic matter into fossil fuels?
a)
A. Industrial Pollution
b)
B. Ocean Currents
c)
C. Volcanic Activity
d)
D. Heat and pressure
15.
What had to be applied in order to make buried organic matter into fossil fuels?
a)
A. Industrial Pollution
b)
B. Ocean Currents
c)
C. Volcanic Activity
d)
D. Heat and pressure
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