Fossil Fuels

What are the three main types of fossil fuels, you can select multiple.

• Crude Oil

• Bio-Diesel

• Natural Gas

• Nuclear

• Coal

Fossil Fuels formed over​ (a)   of years from dying animals or plants found in​ (b)   or other aquatic areas.

• millions
• swamps
• thousands
• mountains
• forests
• hundreds

There are two things needed to make fossil fuels: Water and ______?

Organize these characteristics into there proper fuel.

Groups:

(a) Coal

,

(b) Natural Gas

,

(c) Crude Oil

• Used for plastics, fuel, and heating

• Used 3000 years ago

• Stable but more pliable

• Used for powering steam engines and Power Plant

• Used 200 Years ago

• Used for Fuel, Heating, and cooking

• Most stable form of Fuel

• Most Dangerous Fuel

• Used 1900 years ago

Alberta economy is anchored on Oil, Gas, and Coal production and Energy.

• True
• False

Coal is found in areas of rock called​ (a)   . These can collected either by digging ​ (b)   or at surface digging.

• seams
• underground mining
• layers
• open-pit mining
• strata

Where was the first Oil found in Alberta

• Leduc

• Red Water

• Woodbend

• Turner Valley

​ (a)   surveys are used to send sound waves down into the rock to bounce off ​ (b)   rocks and collect data on oil locations.

• Seismic
• reservoir
• sediment
• Thermal
• Electrical

When pressure is to low to get oil up from the reservoir we use _____________ to pump it out.

When refining Oil we use a process called _________ to separate the different types of oil from each other.

• Fracking

• Distiliing

• Boiling

• Burning