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LEARNING ACTIVITIES
Earth Science
Quarter 1-Week 4 (October 4-8, 2021)

Topic: Energy Resources - Fossil Fuels

Activity 1: Fuelled-up Crossword Puzzle

Direction: Fuel up your brain by completing this crossword puzzle. Read carefully the description given in the
clue section below so you could be able to arrange correctly the scrambled word/s after each description.
Once you have deciphered the code, write it down on the puzzle table.

Horizontal 1. Vertical

1. An odorless, colorless hydrocarbon gas that A liquid fossil fuel composed of hydrocarbons, also
(UTNAALR ASGis composed mainly of methane (CH) called as crude oil that can be refined to form fuel.
4).
(OPTLEMURE)
2.
2. A solid rock form of fossil fuel made of Energy resources that came from the buried,
fossilized remains of living organisms like animals
carbon content material and other trace elements. and plants that lived millions of years ago.
(ISFOLS FULSE)
(OLCA)

3. A liquid type of fossil fuel made mostly of

hydrocarbon. (LIO)
 Activity 2a: Picture Fuel-fect!
Direction: Every picture has a story to tell. Below are pictures given in chronological order to perfectly
describe and tell a short story of the formation of fossil fuel. The story of each picture are posted and scrambled in
the story board. Pick a strip and rewrite it in the callouts found above each picture.

Picture Perfect No. 1 - COAL FORMATION

STORY BOARD

Remains of plants Due to high heat and Giant plants died in

were buried pressure underneath swamps million years,
underwater and dirt the ground, the remains ago before the
over millions of years. of the plants turned into dinosaurs.
coal.

Activity 2a: Picture Fuel-fect!

Picture Perfect No. 2 - PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS FORMATION

Activity 3: Let’s Dig Deeper!

Direction: Let’s gain more knowledge. You may do some research on the web to complete the table. You
need to enumerate at least five uses of each type of fossil fuel. Also, you need to identify the type of fossil fuel as
renewable energy resource or not. Lastly, infer environmental concerns related to each type of fossil fuel.

Table 1. Energy Type, Uses and Environmental Concerns

Type of Uses Renewable Environmental Concerns

Fossil or Not?
Fuel

Coal

Oil

Natural
Gas

Activity 4: Compare me Not!

Direction: It’s time to synthesize your learning. Table 2 below contains statements that will describe coal
and oil. Organize them on the Venn diagram to show comparison and contrast between coal and oil.

Table 2. Description of Coal and Oil

Formed from marine organisms Typical power plant fuel
Formed from vegetation Buried during formation

Source of carbon dioxide Takes millions of years to form

Example of a fossil fuel Contains carbon

Migrates up after formed Formed from kerogen

Non-renewable Four varieties (carbon content)

Used for electricity Most reserves in Middle East

 Venn Diagram

Coal Oil

Both

Activity 5: Fossil Fuel Formation: The Origin of Oil

Direction: Read carefully the statement in each strips. Arrange them in correct chronological order of how
petroleum forms. Write the chronological order of letters on the space provided below the table.

A
Oil floats on water, and gas is even lighter than oil, so petroleum and gas move upward within the reservoir
rock until they're stopped by an impermeable sedimentary
B
The crude oil is transported to a refinery, where it is separated by distillation and other processes into fuels such as
gasoline, butane, kerosene, liquid petroleum gas, jet fuel, diesel fuel, fuel oil, and chemicals used to manufacture plastics.

C
Over time, layer upon layer of marine sediments accumulate, containing the remains of
planktonic organisms.
D
With even more heat and pressure, the hydrocarbons are weakened into petroleum (oil) and gas .

E
As the planktonic organisms die, their remains begin to settle to the ocean floor under anoxic conditions (without
oxygen).
 F
Wells are drilled into the bottom within the oil field to extract the petroleum, which is named petroleum .

G
The story of oil and gas begins with planktonic organisms living in the ocean (or in lakes).
H
With intense temperature and pressure at greater depths, the kerogen begins to transform into hydrocarbons.

I
More and more petroleum and gas accumulate and become concentrated within the trap
J
The petroleum and gas migrate into porous and permeable sedimentary rocks such as sandstone, which is a
petroleum reservoir rock.
K
Thick sequences of sediments are deposited, and therefore the planktonic organisms buried in them are heated and
compressed until the organic matter begins to vary into kerogen, a solid, waxy organic material.

L Zooplankton eat phytoplankton (algae) that use the Sun’s energy to produce organic matter
and energy through photosynthesis.

M
Geologists use various tools, such as seismic surveys, to study Earth to locate oil fields beneath the ground. If a
location seems promising, drilling may begin.

Performance Task
Activity 6: Poster Making

Direction: In a 1/8 illustration board, make a poster that shows the formation of fossil. Also, it should depict
the advantages and disadvantages of using fossil fuels.
RUBRICS
Category 4 3 2 1
The poster The poster clearly The poster The poster does
clearly communicates indirectly not sufficiently
Presentation communicates some of the communicates the communicate
the main idea important ideas idea and hardly any idea that can
and strongly and slightly promotes promote
promotes promotes awareness. awareness.
awareness. awareness.
All of the Most of the The graphics The graphics
graphics used on graphics used on were made by the were not made
Creativity the poster reflect the poster reflect student but were by the student.
and an exceptional student ingenuity copied from the
Originality degree of in their creation. designs or ideas
student ingenuity of others.
in their creation.

All graphics in Most graphics in Some graphics in The graphics in

Accuracy the poster are the poster are the poster are the poster are
and accurate and accurate and accurate and neither accurate
relevance related to the related to the related to the nor related to the
topic. topic. topic. topic.
The poster All required Few required Required
includes all elements are elements are elements are
Required required included. included. missing.
Element elements as well
as additional
information.

Assessment: (Post-Test)
Multiple Choice. Select the letter of the best answer from among the given choices.

5. Which of the following is not a type of fossil fuel?

B. Petroleum B. Coal
C. Geothermal D. Natural Gas
 6. Which of the following is a renewable source of energy?
B. Coal B. Petroleum
C. Crude Oil D. Hydroelectric

7. What is the major component of natural gas?

B. Ethene B. Methane
C. Propane D. Butane

8. A type of fossil fuel that formed from the remains of marine organisms?
B. Coal B. Geothermal
C. Petroleum D. Hydroelectric

For items 5 – 8, arrange in chronological order the formation of petroleum and natural gas. Write letters A-D
in the space provided before each number that shows the correct order.

_____5. Layers of silt, sand and rocks and drilled today to reach the layer where oil and gas deposits contains.
_____6. Marine plants and animals lived million years ago, died and buried on the ocean
floor.
_____7. As the remains of the dead organisms buried deeper and deeper over millions of years, it experienced
the extreme heat and pressure underneath that turned them into oil and gas.
_____8. There remains were covered by layers of sand and silt over time.

For items 9 and 10, give one advantage and one disadvantage of using fossil fuel.