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Coal and Petroleum

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

By which of the given processes is coal formed?

a)

Carbonisation

b)

Distillation

c)

Vapourisation

d)

Evaporation

2.

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

3.

Which material is the initial starting point of coal formation?

a)

Bituminous

b)

Peat

c)

Anthracite

d)

Lignite

4.
What are fossil fuels?
a)
complex hydrocarbon compounds
b)
mixtures of gaseous hydrocarbons located under the surface of the Earth
c)
a nonrenewable energy resource formed the remains of organisms that lived long ago
5.
7. Which fossil fuel is the remains of ancient plants?
a)
Coal
b)
Petroleum
c)
Natural Gas
6.
Crude oil is also called what?
a)
biomass
b)
fossils
c)
coal
d)
petroleum
7.

Which of the following is a fossil fuel?

a)

Petroleum

b)

Wood

c)

Cow dung

d)

Dry leaves

8.

Renewable resources ...

a)

are not replaceable

b)

are used more frequently than non renewables

c)

are never going to run out

d)

going to run out

9.

Petrochemicals are used in manufacturing

a)

Natural gas, Acrylic

b)

Polyester, Nylon

c)

Paraffin wax, Bitumen

d)

Kerosene, diesel

10.

Gas which occurs above the petroleum oil trapped under the rocks is

a)

Oxygen

b)

Biogas

c)

Natural Gas

d)

Carbondioxide

11.

Name the process which is used to separate various constituent of petroleum

a)

Lubrication

b)

Refining

c)

Paraffin

d)

None of these

12.

What are the three fossil fuels?

a)

solar, oil

b)

coal and oil

c)

coal, oil, natural gas

13.

Which of the following is NOT a fossil fuel.

a)

coal

b)

carbon dioxide

c)

petroleum oil

d)

natural gas

14.

What is the other name for coal?

a)

lignite

b)

propane

c)

natural gas

d)

petroleum

15.

What is called as 'black gold'?

a)

PETROLEUM

b)

HYDROCARBON