PETROLEUM
Fill in the blanks with the words in the word bank on the right. Use each word only once.
1. Petroleum is called a
because it was made from marine plants and animals hundreds of millions of years ago.
2. Another name for petroleum is
.
3. We can’t make more petroleum in a short time, so we say it is a
energy source.
4. Some oil is underground; we drill
to find it.
5. Some oil is under the ocean; we use oil
to reach it and pump it to the surface.
6. We move petroleum by
and
.
7. After we pump petroleum from the ground, we send it to a
where some is made into
.
8. We
41 percent of the oil we use from other countries.
9. Burning petroleum products causes air
.
WORD BANK
wells
fossil fuel
gasoline
import
nonrenewable
oil
pipelines
pollution
refinery
rigs
ships