Geography Worksheet: Oil and The Environment
Q) Fill in the Blanks:
1. Crude Oil is one of the world’s most valuable
natural resources.
2. The deepest oil well
was drilled in 2009 in the Gulf of Mexico.
3. The natural gas is
used as a fuel.
4. Oil is a non-renewable
resource.
5. Oil companies use huge
platforms called oilrigs to drill oil from the ground.
Q) Write answers to the
questions?
1. How is oil formed?
1. Crude oil was formed from
tiny plants and animals that lived in the sea millions of years ago. When these
plants and animals that lived in the sea millions of years ago. When these
plants and animals died, they sank to the bottom of the sea. They became buried
by mud and sand and over millions of years were changed into oil.
2. What are the applications
of oil?
2. It is used to make
petrol, diesel, paraffin or kerosene, heating oil and asphalt. Other materials
made from crude oil include paints, detergents, plastics, synthetic rubber and
pesticides.
3. Which type of resource is
oil? Give reasons to support your answer.
3. Oil is a non-renewable
resource. If we go on using more and more oil, soon there will be none left
because oil will take millions of years to form.
4. How can we get oil from
ground?
4. Oil is found in layers
deep underground. To get at the oil, workers have to drill thousands of meters
through the rock. If they strike oil, it rushes out of the ground in a mixture
with gas. In some places, oil companies drill for oil below the sea floor.
5. What incident happened in
the Gulf of Mexico related to oil?
5. In April 2010, an oil rig
exploded and sank in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 people. 780,000 cubic
meters of oil gushed out into the sea.
6. What are the different
mediums through which oil can be transported in the world?
6. The oil has to be pumped
through large pipes over land to a port. Large oil tanker ships take the oil
around the world.
7. What are the harmful
effects of oil on aquatic life?
7. If an oil tanker runs
aground or collides with another ship, thousands of tonnes of oil may spill
out. Oil may also be spilled when a tanker is being loaded. Plants and animals
that live in the sea, including the fish and shellfish we eat, die. Seabirds
that get oil on their feathers cannot survive.
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