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Fossil fuels

Total questions: 54

Worksheet time: 55mins

Name
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 coal form?
a)
Pressure builds in wetlands
b)
Pressure builds in trees
c)
Pressure builds in peat bogs
d)
Forms at the North Pole
5.
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
6.
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 
7.
Where did the energy for fossil fuels come from?
a)
Animals
b)
Plants
c)
Sun
d)
Chemosynthesis
8.
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
9.
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
10.
Drilling and transporting fossil fuels causes damage to natural habitats and can lead to land and water pollution. 
a)
True
b)
False
11.
Which greenhouse gas is produced most by the automobile industry? 
a)
Hydrogen
b)
Sulfur
c)
Methane
d)
Carbon Dioxide
12.
Which of the following is not a type of fossil fuel? 
a)
Coal
b)
Light
c)
Petroleum
d)
Natural Gas
13.
What are fossil fuels?
a)
Dinosaur bones
b)
Resources made from once living organisms 
c)
Combination of different rocks
d)
Gas Stations
14.
Why do we depend on fossil fuels? 
a)
Electricity, transportation, and heating
b)
Food
c)
Sunlight
d)
Growing, building muscle, calcium
15.
How does coal form?
a)
Pressure builds in wetlands
b)
Pressure builds in trees
c)
Pressure builds in peat bogs
d)
Forms at the North Pole
16.
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
17.
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 
18.
Where did the energy for fossil fuels come from?
a)
Animals
b)
Plants
c)
Sun
d)
Chemosynthesis
19.
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
20.
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
21.
Drilling and transporting fossil fuels causes damage to natural habitats and can lead to land and water pollution. 
a)
True
b)
False
22.
Which greenhouse gas is produced most by the automobile industry? 
a)
Hydrogen
b)
Sulfur
c)
Methane
d)
Carbon Dioxide
23.

Fossil Fuels are

a)

pieces of rock that have been compacted many times

b)

rock that contains 50% plant and animal remains

c)

metamorphic rock

d)

fuels that form from the remains of plant and other organisms that were buried and altered over million of years

24.

This fossil fuel is formed from the remains of small organisms that lived in the ocean AND is a thick, black liquid

a)

natural gas

b)

coal

c)

oil

d)

steam

25.

Coal is formed from

a)

rocks

b)

a factory

c)

remains of small organisms that lived many millions of years ago in our oceans

d)

plant remains along with heat and pressure

26.

The flame on your stove is an example of

a)

coal

b)

petroleum

c)

natural gas

d)

oil

27.

The four factors that contribute to the formation of fossil fuels are

a)

energy, sunlight, food and water

b)

natural gas, oil, and coal

c)

organic matter, high temperatures, time and pressure

d)

plastic, medicine, cosmetics and jewelry

28.

What conditions are needed to form coal?

a)

Heat and pressure

b)

Heat

c)

Moisture and pressure

d)

Cool and moist

29.
Fossil Fuels formed over long periods of time after particles in water settled to the sea floor and formed marine mud.  What kinds of particles needed to be present in the marine mud in order for fossil fuels to form.
a)
Mostly sand and a few small bits of wood
b)
Mostly decaying organisms
c)
Mostly lava and a few sedimentary rocks
d)
Mostly metal minerals
30.
The Earth provides humans with an unlimited amount of fossil fuels. They are considered renewable.
a)
True
b)
False
31.
In addition to long periods of time, all of the following are necessary for the formation of fossil fuels EXECPT - 
a)
extreme heat
b)
organic (living) matter
c)
fresh water
d)
intense pressure
32.
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
33.
Which fossil fuel is formed when more heat and pressure is applied to OIL?
a)
Oil
b)
Coal
c)
There isn't one
d)
Natural gas
34.
What type of fossil fuel is mined from the ground?
a)
wind
b)
coal
c)
biomass
d)
air
35.

Which event began the formation of oil?

a)

the mixing of sea water with minerals

b)

the buildup of sea shells

c)

the eruption of a volcano

d)

the death of anciet marine (ocean) animals

36.
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
37.
A student creates a model of the formation of fossil fuels by first placing a layer of leaves, representing organic matter, in the bottom of a cup.  What step will come next in the model?
a)
A. Pouring water over the leaves to model washing away by rivers. 
b)
B. adding sand on top of the leaves to model burial in sediments. 
c)
C. Burning the leaves to model the decay of organic matter. 
d)
D. Putting the leaves in the freezer to model conditions on top of mountains. 
38.

How long does it take for fossil fuels to form?

a)

100 years

b)

10,000 years

c)

millions of years

39.

Are fossil fuels renewable or non renewable?

a)

renewable

b)

non renewable

40.

Why should we conserve fossil fuels?

a)

They are expensive

b)

One day they will run out

41.
Which layer formed first?
a)
Rock Layer W
b)
Rock Layer X
c)
Rock Layer Y
d)
Rock Layer Z
42.

Fossil Fuels (choose ALL that apply)

a)

considered nonrenewable resources

b)

cause pollution in the atmosphere

c)

are renewable resources

d)

oil, coal and natural gas

43.

Fossil fuel is an energy providing material that comes from

a)

long-dead remains of living things.

b)

the center of the Earth.

c)

out space.

d)

the atmosphere.

44.

Which of the following is NOT a fossil fuel.

a)

coal

b)

carbon dioxide

c)

petroleum oil

d)

natural gas

45.

The fuel used in power plants to make electricity is

a)

natural gas.

b)

petroleum oil.

c)

coal.

d)

water.

46.

Most energy modern people use comes from

a)

nuclear power.

b)

using wind energy.

c)

using the sun's energy.

d)

burning fossil fuels.

47.

The remains that transformed into fossil fuels were buried for

a)

a few hundred years.

b)

millions of years.

c)

less than 20,000 years.

d)

hardly any time at all.

48.

Heat and _____________ transformed living things into fossil fuels.

a)

pressure

b)

air

c)

gas

d)

water

49.

There is a limited amount of fossil fuels.

a)

true

b)

false

50.

Fossil fuels are a _______________________.

a)

renewable resource

b)

unknown resource

c)

nonrenewable resource

d)

new resource

51.

The supply of fossil fuels is NOT rapidly depleting.

a)

true

b)

false

52.

Fossil fuel burning releases large amounts of _______________.

a)

oxygen

b)

carbon dioxide

c)

nitrogen

d)

carbon monoxide

53.

Burning fossil fuels causes ____________ and ____________.

a)

acid rain

b)

clean air

c)

air pollution

d)

clean cities

54.

_____________ and ____________ trap heat in Earth's atmosphere.

a)

oxygen

b)

carbon dioxide

c)

greenhouse gases

d)

nitrogen

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