Date: 05/20/2021

Title: LO: To describe how crude oil is formed

Task 1: RAPID RECALL
1) What is a catalyst? (3)
Catalyst increases the rate of reaction by providing an alternative pathway by
lowering the activation energy

2) What is a reversible reaction? (1)

A reaction where products can react to produce the original reactants.

3) When concentration increases, what happens to the rate of

reaction? (3) Rate of reaction increases, there are more
particles, more chances of successful collisions
4) When temperature increases, what happens to the rate of
reaction? (3) Rate of reaction increases, particles gain more kinetic energy,
They move faster, causing higher chances of successful collisions
 Learning Destination

1) Define fossil fuel

2) State the stages of crude oil formation

3) Describe the process of crude oil

formation
 Keywords

•Fossil fuels
•Finite
•Crude oil
•Pressure
•Permeable
•impermeable
 Match the keywords with the definitions
Force, organisms, liquid, once, marine, empty

Key word Definition

Fossil fuels Natural, finite fuels formed from the remains of living
……………….,
organisms e.g. coal, gas and oil
Finite Resources that can only be used ……….
once and have a limited
supply

Crude oil Fossil fuel formed from dead ……………

marine organisms

Pressure …………….
Force over a given area

Permeable Liquid can pass through the ………….

empty spaces in this rock

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?

2)Where are the biomass buried under?

3)How long ago was the fossil fuel formed?

4)Which conditions made the mud into rock?

Which of the following is not a fossil
fuel?

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?

Salt from the sea water

The chemicals from the mud

Pressure and heat

Why did the crude oil become trapped?

Could not move through the

impermeable rock
It is denser than water so it remains on
the sea bed

The mud provides a water proof

barrier