Lesson 1 - Formation of Crude Oil
Lesson 1 - Formation of Crude Oil
Lesson 1 - Formation of Crude Oil
•Fossil fuels
•Finite
•Crude oil
•Pressure
•Permeable
•impermeable
Match the keywords with the definitions
Force, organisms, liquid, once, marine, empty
Pressure …………….
Force over a given area
Impermeable No ……………..
liquid can pass through this rock
Fossil fuels
crude
Crude oil
Fossil fuel
Finite resource
Mixture of
hydrocarbons
The stages of crude oil formation
Task: Fill in Keywords: surface permeable impermeable pressure
heat natural gas, sea bed, plants died animals
the blanks
mud trapped dig mud sediment
Stage 1
Between 300 and 400 million years ago huge numbers of ……………
and microscopic marine …………….. called plankton ………. and fell to
the ……… ……… where their remains were covered in ……..
Stage 2
Between 50 and 100 million years ago the …… …………….was buried
by more mud sediment and the ………….. and ………. slowly turned
the mud into rock. The plant and animal remains slowly became oil
and ………………. ………..
Stage 3
Today the oil has moved up to the …………… in-between the …………..
rock and has become …………… when it reaches …………………. Rock.
The oil companies can ………….. down through the impermeable
rock to get it out.
Knowledge check
1)What is the main organism that crude oil is formed
from?
Biofuel
Coal
Crude oil
What is crude oil formed from?
Marine organisms
Trees
Mud
How many stages of crude oil
formation?
2
3
4
What caused the marine organisms to change
into crude oil?