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How do ferns that lived millions of years ago provide energy for us today?
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∙ 6y ago
The ferns have been compressed into 'coal' and we use coal as a source of energy - hence 'fossil fuels'.
Darien VonRueden
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Where did the energy come from to create coal?
i think its from the energy stored by plants that lived hundreds of millions of years ago.=]
Where does underground oil come from?
What we find as crude oil underground today was formed by millions of years of chemical reactions from the decay of plants that lived long ago. Most of them were palms and ferns.
Why are ferns that lived millions of years ago still important to us today?
Ferns were the dominant form of vegetation during the Carboniferous Period about 300 million years ago. They were much larger than ferns growing today, some reaching a height of 24 meters (80 feet). Much of the world's supply of coal, oil, and gas formed from the remains of ancient ferns that were slowly buried under layers of sediment.
What type of plants existed at the same time stegosaurus lived?
ferns and leaves
What plants were there in velociraptors habitat?
Velociraptor lived in a desert, so most plants only lived at oases or were very sparsely scattered. Plants that may have lived there include conifers, cycads, ferns, ginkgoes, horsetails, and early angiosperms such as primitive grasses and palm trees.
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.
What plants existed when the triceratops lived?
grass, wheets, beech tree's oak trees, and ferns
How long have unicellular organisms have lived on Earth?
they have lived for up to millions of years
What information can artifact and fossils provide?
Fossils can show the kind of environment animals lived in millions of years ago. They can also show how certain animals have evolved. Artifacts can show the kind of society humans lived in at a certain time.
How was oil developed?
Oil, is a fossil fuel, which is made from small organisms that lived in shallow inland seas and oceans, that once lived hundreds of millions of years ago. The creatures decompose and the oil is the energy of that dead animal.
How long did dinasours live on earth?
Dinosaurs lived tons and tons of years. For me I think that they lived for millions and millions of years.
What kind of animals once lived in the praries?
Millions of buffalo.
