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How was coal formed over millions of years?

the remains of plant matter is changed into coal over millions of years while the remains of billions of microorganisms and other organisms formed petroleum and natural gas.


What is a substance such as coal or oil that was formed millions of years ago from the remains of plants and animals?

Fossil Fuels


What is the definition of coal?

Coal is rock composed mostly of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. Coal is formed from the remains of ancient plants buried in the crust of the earth for millions of years.


What natural resource is formed from the remains of plants that died millions of years ago?

umpa lumpa dopati do ha ha ha Fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and natural gas are formed from the remains of plant and animal matter.


Where are the first stages of coal formed?

Coals are formed by plants, after millions of years they become coal.


What is an energy resource that was formed from the buried remains of plants and animals that lived millions of years ago?

Fossil Fuels such as coal, oil, and natural gas.


How is sedimentary rock formed into coal?

It isn't. Coal is the compressed remains of plants which lived in swamps and was later covered with sediment and buried under millions of tons of rock for millions of years until it became almost as hard as rock.


Why are coal petroluem and natural gas considered nonrenewable resources if they were produced from plant and animal remains?

They are non-renewable, as they were naturally formed over millions of years.


Plants and animals that lived in the oceans formed the fossil fuel called?

Coal is a solid fossil fuel formed in ancient swamps from the remains of plants and animals under great heat and pressure over millions of years. A liquid fossil fuel formed in oceans from the remains of plants and animals under great heat and pressure of millions of years is called oil.


How are coal deposits formed?

Millions of years of pressure and heat turned decaying animals and plants into coal.


What is a fuel formed over millions of years?

Coal, Natural Gas and Oil


What is the science behind coal energy?

it came from the remains of animals such as dinosaurs millions of years ago