1. Fossil Fuels By: Glizyl Luna

2. What are Fossil Fuels?
 They are natural
substances made
deep within the
earth from the re-
mains of ancient
plants and animals.
Over quite some
time the heat
turned these into
fuels and when its
burned it releases
energy.

3. The Three Types of Fossil Fuels
 The three main types
of fossil fuels are
coal, oil, and natural
gas.
 They all come from
the underground in
similar ways.
 The fossil fuels sup-
ply about 90 percent
of the world's energy
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4. How is coal formed?
 Coal started out as a large
fern and tree like plants that
grew in swamps.
 Plants died and then piled
up at the bottom of the wa-
ter.
 They were buried under wa-
ter and composed on by
bacteria and the plants de-
cayed into brown stuff called
peat.
 The peat was covered with
mud and sand which was
smashed together to heat it
up which squeezed out wa-
ter and carbon.

5. Stages of Coal
 The layers of coal are
formed called seams.
 Coal then will be
mined out of the
ground.
 Coal is estimated to
last another 200
years.
 It is also provides 27
percent of the world's
energy.

6. What is coal used for
 Coal is used for 40
percent of the world's
electricity.
 Electricity is made
from plants when
coal is burned to
change water into
steam and steam
turns into turbine.
 Coal produces car-
bon dioxide.

7. How is oil formed
 Oil was formed by tiny plants
and animals that were called
plankton
 The plankton then died and
sank to the bottom of the
lakes and seas.
 They also were buried under
layers of sand and mud.
 They were then squeezed
together to turn into a hard
rock.
 The bacteria then munched
the plankton which changed
into dark ooze.
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8. What is oil used as a fossil fuel
 Crayons
 Bubble gum
 Dish washing liquids
 Eye glasses
 Tires

9. How is natural gas formed
 Natural gas is formed
just like oil
 The planktons died
and sank in the lakes
and seas.
 The gas would be
drilled out of the
ground too.
 It is made up of
methane, butane,
propane, and ethane.

10. How is natural gas used as a fossil
fuel
 Electricity
 steel
 gas

11. What are refineries and why are they
important to production of fossil fuels
 Refineries are indus-
trial process plant
where crude oil is
processed into more
useful petroleum
products.
 It is important to the
production of fossil
fuels because it helps
make plastic and
gasoline which are
necessities to our life.

12. Exxon Valdez
 It was an oil spill in
Prince William
Sound, Alaska
 On March 24,1989
 It was spilled there
about an estimate of
10.8 million US gal-
lons.
 It was the largest oil
spills in US waters

13. Deep Water Horizon oil catastrophe
 The spill was on April
20,2010.
 It was from the sea
floor of the Gulf of
Mexico.
 This caused an ex-
plosion in the south-
east of Louisiana
coast.
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14. Sources

http://www.ecokids.ca/pub/eco_info/topics/energy/ecostats/index.cfm
 http://www.eia.doe.gov/kids/energy.cfm?page=oil_home-basics
 http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=deep+water+horizon&aq=f&aqi=g
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