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Oil and natural gas result from

• the migration of complex carbohydrate molecules to nonporous rock formations
• the decay of tiny marine organisms that accumulated on the ocean floor millions of years ago
• the burning of high-sulfur, low-grade uranium
• the decay of plants that lived in swamps hundreds of thousands of years ago

A(n) ________ is a nonrenewable energy resource formed from the remains of organisms that lived long ago; examples include oil, coal, and natural gas.

• nuclear atom
• uranium atom
• fossil fuel
• solar panel

The four main purposes of fuel are transportation, manufacturing, heating and cooling buildings, and

• generating electricty
• construction
• air travel
• drilling

The two disadvantages to electricity are that other energy sources have to be used to generate it, and it is

• unstable
• difficult to store
• more expensive
• hard to create

___________ produces electrical energy by moving an electrically conductive material within a magnetic field.

• Turbines
• Coal pits
• Water. pipes
• Generators

The US uses more than ________ of its energy to transport goods and people.

• 25%
• 35%
• 50%
• 75%

There is an abundance of oil in which of the following states?

• Texas and Alaska
• Texas and Oklahoma
• Nebraska and Arkansas
• Nevada and New Mexico

Coal forms from the remains of ________ that lived in swamps many years ago.

• animals
• plants
• fish
• marine organisms

Nearly 1/2 of the energy in the US comes from ________ power plants.

• nuclear
• natural gas
• coal-fired
• hydroelectric

Petroleum is also known as _______.

• natural gas
• polite oil
• coal
• crude oil