Learning Experience 2.1
What did you learn?
Use the word bank to complete the text you worked with last
session.
Fossil Fuels
Material
Crude Oil
Energy Source
Organic
Plants
chemically Animals
Dinosaurs
Coal
Pressure
Oil
Shale
Natural Gas
Source Rock
Non-Renewable
Petroleum
Environment
Decay
Organisms
Marine
Deposits
Sedimentary Layers
Rapid burial
Carbon-Rich Compound s
Heat
Oil and Gas Formation
__________ are the world’s most commonly used _________. They
are stores of energy formed from the remains of ______ and
________ that lived millions of years ago – hence the name fossil
fuels. ______, _____ and ___________ are examples of fossil fuels.
As these cannot be replaced easily they are called ____________
sources of energy.
Oil is also called crude oil or ___________. The word petroleum
means “rock oil” or “oil from the earth”. It was formed from the
remains of animals and plants that lived in a _________ (water)
____________, millions of years ago. When __________died and
sank to the bottom, they were covered in mud, sand and other
mineral ___________. This ___________ prevented immediate
________, which would normally occur if organisms remained
exposed on the sea floor. The lack of oxygen in the
________________ caused organisms to slowly convert into
_____________________. These compounds mixed with
surrounding sediments and formed __________, which is a type
of fine-grained _______. As more layers deposited on top of one
another, _________ and _______ acting on the source rock
____________ converted the ______________ into what we call
____________.