Certification 6 Fossil Fuels 5.7A

How should the arrows in the diagram be labeled?

• Pressure and Heat

• Erosion and Deposition

• Heat and Cementation

• Weathering and Compaction

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Which action is most likely happening in Section Y of the diagram?

• Wind and rain compacting rock into larger pieces

• water carrying rocky material to a new location

• Chemicals in water gluing sediments to each other

• Pressure causing layers of sediment to form over time

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How did these oil fields form?

• Dead plants and animals were buried for millions of years

• plants were eaten by consumers that left fossilized remains

• heat caused rocks to undergo chemical changes

• rocks at the surface of the earth melted and solidified

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Which of these are most likely formed by the process shown?

• Glaciers

• Mountains

• Sand Dunes

• Sedimentary Rocks

Which process does this diagram most likely represent?

• The erosion of a coastline?

• The deposition of sediments

• The weathering of a mountain

• The formation of a sea

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Which of these environments could form coal if the area is buried for a long time?

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What most likely happened to the dead plants and animals?

• They were eaten by scavenger

• They became fossil fuels

• They were washed away by water

• They became an underground aquifer

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Canyons and mesas are two landforms found in the western part of the United States. Which statement best describes how canyons and mesas are similar?

• Both were formed by moving glaciers

• Both were formed by erosion by wind and water

• Both were part of a mountain that was weathered by ice

• Both were part of a desert that was reshaped by a flood

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This valley was most likely formed by--

• a rapid series of earthquakes

• volcanic activity

• a flood with rapidly moving water

• movement of a glacier

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Which list contains only processes that must occur in order for fossil fuel to form?

• Formation of faults, burial, glacier formation

• Organism growth, burial, volcanic eruptions

• organism growth, burial, compaction

• erosion, burial, earthquakes

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