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Coal

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What do fuels combine with to produce heat and light?

a)

Carbon dioxide

b)

Carbon monoxide

c)

Hydrogen

d)

Oxygen

2.

By which of the given processes is coal formed?

a)

Carbonisation

b)

Distillation

c)

Vapourisation

d)

Evaporation

3.
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
4.

Which of the forms of coal has highest percentage of carbon?

a)

Anthracite

b)

Bituminous

c)

Peat

d)

Lignite

5.

Which of the following properties is NOT a characteristic of a good fuel?

a)

High Ignition temperature

b)

Low cost

c)

Causes minimum pollution

d)

Readily available

6.

How is coke superior than coal as a fuel?

a)

Coal is mineral and burns releasing smoke while coke is a residue

b)

Coal is an impure form of carbon, while coke is a pure form of carbon

c)

Only coal consists of atoms of carbon, hydrogen , oxygen and sulphur while coke mainly consists of carbon

d)

All of the above

7.

Heat and _____________ transformed living things into fossil fuels.

a)

pressure

b)

air

c)

gas

d)

water

8.

Fossil fuels are a _______________________.

a)

renewable resource

b)

unknown resource

c)

nonrenewable resource

d)

new resource

9.
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
10.

Which of these are inexhaustible natural resources

a)

Sunlight

b)

Coal

c)

Wildlife

d)

Forest/ Minerals

11.

Which one is not a coal product?

a)

Coal tar

b)

Coal gas

c)

Lime

d)

Coke

12.

Which is the second best variety of coal which has around 60% carbon content?

a)

Anthracite

b)

Bitumious

c)

Lignite

d)

Peat

13.

By what method can we obtain many products from coal?

a)

Fractional Distillation

b)

Destructive Distillation

c)

Both

d)

None

14.

A good reducing agent and a bad conductor of heat and electricity.

a)

Diamond

b)

Coke

c)

Charcoal

d)

All of the above

15.

The coal product which is used for extracting metals

a)

Coal gas

b)

Coke

c)

Coal Tar

d)

Bitumen

16.

The purest amorphous form of carbon is

a)

Graphite

b)

Coal

c)

Coke

d)

Diamond

17.

Which one is not a free state of carbon?

a)

Coke

b)

Charcoal

c)

Petrol

d)

Graphite

18.

Different varieties of coal differ in their

a)

moisture

b)

volatile nature

c)

carbon content

d)

number of hydrogen atoms

19.

The percent of carbon present in bituminous and anthracite are

a)

65, 96

b)

96, 65

c)

65, 35

d)

96, 35

20.

___________ is the residue left after destructive distillation of coal.

a)

peat

b)

lignite

c)

bituminous

d)

coke