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Petroleum

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 15mins

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Class
Date
1.

Name the country which is the leading producer of petroleum.

a)

India

b)

UAE

c)

Saudi Arabia

d)

China

2.

Write the full form of LPG.

a)

Liquified petroleum gas

b)

Liquid petrified gas

c)

Liquide petrol gasoline

3.

What are fossil fuels

a)

Rocks that contain only plant remains.

b)

Pieces of rocks that have been compacted

c)

Rocks that contain only animal remains

d)

Natural fuels that are made up by burial of living organisms under deep down the earth for over a long period of time, are called fossil fuel

4.

Choose the correct option

A. Coal, petroleum and natural gas are fossil fuels.

B. Coal and natural gas are inexhaustible resources.

C. Fossil fuels are present in limited quantities.

a)

Only A

b)

Only A and B

c)

Only A and C

d)

All of the above

5.

Petroleum is mainly a mixture of which one of the following

a)

(a) Carbohydrates

b)

(b) Carbogens

c)

(c) Hydrocarbons

d)

(d) Alcohols

6.

Which one is not the example of fossil fuel?

a)

coal

b)

petroleum

c)

natural gas

d)

wood

7.

The technique used to separate crude oil into several fraction of hydrocarbon is called...

a)

filtration

b)

evaporation

c)

fractional distillation

d)

crystallization

8.

Which of the following is the major use for petroleum?

a)

Transportation

b)

Electricity production

9.
What are the 3 main fossil fuels?
a)
A. Coal, oil, and vegetable oil. 
b)
B. Coal, Oil, and Natural Gas
c)
C. Electricity, Gasoline, Petroleum
d)
D. Coal, Oil, Non-renewable Resources
10.
Why do we depend on fossil fuels? 
a)
Electricity, transportation, and heating
b)
Food
c)
Sunlight
d)
Growing, building muscle, calcium
11.
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
12.

What is fractional distillation?

a)

a process used to separate crude oil

b)

a process used to burn up fuels

c)

a way to make different products

d)

how oil is extracted from the ground

13.

Crude oil is made up of:

a)

Ethane

b)

Butane

c)

A mixture of different hydrocarbons

d)

Extremely large hydrocarbons which are broken up once extracted

14.

Crude oil must be refined before it can be used as fuel. What does "refined" mean?

a)

Taxed

b)

Created

c)

Purified

d)

Burned

15.

Gasoline are petroleum product?

a)
b)
16.

petroleum is one of the important : -

a)

FOSSIL FUELS

b)

FUELS

c)

PETROLEUM

d)

COAL

17.

which of these is the diagram of fractional distillation of petroleum ?

a)
b)
18.

What is called as 'black gold'?

a)

PETROLEUM

b)

HYDROCARBON

19.

A fossil fuel-

a)

Petroleum

b)

Electricity

c)

Cow dung

d)

Dry leaves

20.

What are the most common sources of energy used in automobiles?

a)

Wood and coal

b)

Petroleum and diesel

c)

LPG and cow dung

d)

Natural gas and coal