Ms. Wander’s Class

Heards Ferry Elementary

Fossil Fuels

Directions: The price of gas keeps rising. Your job is to find out how fossil fuels give energy.  Your task is to research fossil fuels. What are fossil fuels and how do they give energy? Click on the websites to answer the questions on your web quest sheet.

 

Go to:

Oil

http://www.eia.doe.gov/kids/energyfacts/sources/non-renewable/oil.html

 

 

1. How was oil formed?

 

2. What are the top five oil producing countries?

 

3. In what five states can oil be found in the United States?

 

Natural Gas

 

http://www.eia.doe.gov/kids/energyfacts/sources/non-renewable/naturalgas.html

 

1. How was natural gas formed?

2. Howis natural gas stored and delivered?

 

Coal

 

Http:// www.energyquest.ca.gov/story/chapter08.html

 

1. Name five things coal is made of?

2. How many states is coal found in?

3. How many years did it take to make fossil fuels?

4. How can we save fossil fuels?