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Coal is called because it was made from plants millions of years ago?
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∙ 12y ago
coal is like a solid carbon. Most of living thing's molecules is made up of complex carbon molecules. When this get buried the pressure very high. Therefore, solid carbon is formed
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What takes millions of years to form from the pressure of dead plants and trees in swamps?
Coal takes millions of years to form from the pressure of dead plants and trees in swamps.
What makes coal?
dead plants, intense heat, pressure and a lot of time. . . coal is not considered a renewable energy source because it takes millions of years to form
Where are the first stages of coal formed?
Coals are formed by plants, after millions of years they become coal.
How are coal deposits formed?
Millions of years of pressure and heat turned decaying animals and plants into coal.
What type of fuel formed by the remains of sea creatures and plants millions of years ago?
fossil fuel
Why the earth resources are limited?
They are called limited because they take millions of years to form and most probably no-one has millions of years to live.
What is the flowering plants?
Flowering plants are called angiosperms and overtime as climate changes plants must adapt and change to the environment. So over millions of years plants will look different.
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.
What takes millions of years to form from the pressure of dead plants and trees in swamps?
Coal takes millions of years to form from the pressure of dead plants and trees in swamps.
What short of plants were the in the 30 millions years ago?
Giant Dinosaur Eating plants... very dangerous!
Why is there a fossil fuels?
There are fossil fuels because things (like plants and animals) died hundreds of millions of years ago. Most Fossil fuels are non- renewable. Meaning they will not replenish untill we are dead and gone for hundreds of millions of years.
How long does it take for dead plants and animals to become oil?
Millions of years
What is the name for a animal and plants that are found in rock millions of years later?
a fossil
What is a rock formed millions of years ago called?
its called a bobshed
Why are nonrenewable resources called fossil fuels?
Fossil fuels come from fossilized animals or plants and take millions of years to form so they are therefore "nonrenewable."
How are mountains still here if they got eroded for millions of years?
Because millions of years ago they were a lot bigger.
What does not contain carbon from the bodies of plants and animals that died millions of years ago?
coal
