Fossil Fuels
Natural Resources
Plate Tectonics & Fossil Fuels Cont.
Scientific Method
Random
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Which word best describes the type of resource petroleum is?
- a. renewable
- b. synthetic
- c. organic
- d. nonrenewable
100
True or false? Obtaining natural resources is usually easy.
False!
100
Why are Earth's plates moving?
The Earth's plates are floating on a liquid called magma, which is moving because of heat.
100
what is the dependent variable?
Average Plant Growth
100
Coal was the main source of _______ for the 1800s and 1900s.
Energy
200
Today, coal is burned in _ to generate electricity.
Power plants
200
If you have a stove that uses a blue flame to heat pots and pans, you are cooking with this fossil fuel. Like all fossil fuels, this fuel formed deep in the Earth and is made from dead organic matter.
Natural Gas
200
These two continents not only had matching animal fossils but also fit together most obviously like puzzle pieces.
South America and Africa
200
What represents the "cause" variable of a phenomenon in an experiment?
Independent Variable
200
Why is the gel worm we made in class considered to be a synthetic product?
It is synthetic because the natural resources involved were changed chemically by people.
300
forms from the buried remains of ancient marine plants and animals; Is made when crude oil is refined.
Petroleum
300
True or False: A nuclear submarine uses fossil fuels as fuel.
False. Nuclear energy is not a fossil fuel.
300
Burning fossil fuels releases which gas into the air, making the Earth warmer?
Carbon Dioxide
300
True or false: The dependent variable is the variable we measure and the independent variable is the cause of changes in the dependent variable.
True
300
Fish are _ resources.
Renewable
400
Large power plants burn this fossil fuel and transfer the chemical energy into electricity.
Coal
400
__________ resources are made from natural resources.
Synthetic
400
True or false: A diesel fueled truck engine uses fossil fuels.
True
400
Nonmetal minerals are ___ resources.
nonrenewable
500
Large power plants burn this fossil fuel and transfer the chemical energy into electricity.
Fossil fuels
500
True or False: Fossil fuels include all oils, gases, and wood.
False
500
Luis says that all of his toys are plastic, therefore, they don't require any natural resources to create. Which statement below is true?
- a. Luis is incorrect because plastic is a natural resource.
- b. Luis is incorrect because he fails to take into account the processes for creating plastic toys, which often involve natural resources.
- c. Luis is correct
- d. Luis is incorrect because some plastic toys contain natural resources.
B. Luis is incorrect because he fails to take into account the processes for creating plastic toys, which often involve natural resources.
500
Soil is a ____ resource.
nonrenewable