Formation of Petroleum

Q. Petroleum is cleaned and processed in a .

1. boiler
2. refinery
3. tanker

Q. Statement 1: Petroleum pumped out of the earth is not pure.
Statement 2: Petroleum is refined to get various useful products.

1. Only statement 1 is correct.
2. Both statements are incorrect.
3. Only statement 2 is correct.
4. Both statements are correct.

Q. Petroleum is obtained from organisms living in the:

1. soil
2. sea
3. mountain
4. forest

Q. What do you understand by the term oil fields and list the Indian states with large oil fields.

Q. What is the full form of PCRA?

1. Petroleum Conservation Research Association
2. Petroleum Consumption Research Association
3. Petroleum Conservation Resources Association
4. Petrochemical Consumption Research Association

Q. What is petroleum refining?

Q. The gas which occurs above the petroleum oil trapped under the rocks is called __________.

1. bio gas
2. petroleum gas
3. natural gas
4. coal gas

Q. (a) What happens when carbon burns in air? Write the chemical equation of the reaction which takes place.
(b) Why are coal and petroleum called fossil fuels?
(c) Explain how coal was formed in the earth.
(d) Describe how petroleum was formed in the earth.
(e) Name a fossil fuel other than coal and petroleum.

Q. In the following sentence, find the jumbled word and write it in the correct form.

Q. What is the process of extracting products like petrol and diesel from petroleum called?

1. Cleaning
2. Refining
3. Purifying
4. Coating

Q. Formation of petroleum takes:

1. few days
2. millions of years
3. few seconds
4. few minutes

Q. The layer containing petroleum and gas is:

1. above that of water
2. below sand
3. below water
4. between water and sand

Q. The dead aquatic organisms that were buried under the sand and clay of the sea bed, were converted to petroleum owing to:

1. absence of air
2. high temperature
3. high pressure
4. all of the above

Q. Statement 1: Petroleum pumped out of the earth is not pure.
Statement 2: Petroleum is refined to get various useful products.

1. Only statement 1 is correct.
2. Only statement 2 is correct.
3. Both statements are correct.
4. Both statements are incorrect.

Q. Formation of petroleum takes:

1. few days
2. few seconds
3. few years
4. millions of years

Q. Petroleum is the compressed remains of underwater dead animals .

1. False
2. True

Q. Petroleum is formed under the earth's crust by chemical changes in:

1. Vegetable matter
2. Animal matter
3. Both vegetable and animal matter
4. Inorganic matter

Q. Petroleum is refined in:

1. Vehicles
2. Petrol pump
3. Reservoirs
4. Refineries