Fossil Fuels

What are the 3 main fossil fuels?

• A. Coal, oil, and Rocks

• B. Coal, Oil, and Natural Gas

• C. Electricity, Gasoline, Petroleum

• D. Coal, Oil, Water

Fossil Fuels are what type of energy?

• Renewable

• Non-Renewable

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What had to be applied in order to make buried organic matter into fossil fuels?

• A. Industrial Pollution
• B. Ocean Currents
• C. Volcanic Activity
• D. Heat and pressure

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Fossil Fuels form in sedimentary rocks when -

• A. plants use the nutrients in the sediments to grow
• B. organic matter is buried along with sediments
• C. rivers carry sediments down mountainsides
• D. sediments are used by humans as a resource

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What do you call the process of drilling and injecting fluid into a ground at a high pressure in order to break or fracture the shale rocks to release natural gas inside?

• Drilling

• Fracking

• Perforation

• Sedimentation

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This fossil fuel has been created by the remains of plants and must be mined from deep within the Earth.

• oil

• coal

• natural gas

• solar

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The ADVANTAGES of Fossil Fuels include: (Choose ALL that apply)

• low cost

• produce a lot of energy

• cause air pollution

• high cost

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Some DISADVANTAGES of Fossil Fuels are (Select ALL that apply)

• air pollution

• Non-Renewable

• contributes to climate change

• low cost

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How are fossils created?

• A. Traces of organisms harden like rock. 
• B. Dead organisms are quickly buried for millions of years.
• C. Animals get trapped.
• D. All of the above

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