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What type of fuel formed from the remains of plants many years ago?
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∙ 13y ago
Plants which died and decayed and were buried by later material.
Gonzalo Abernathy
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∙ 13y agoCoal was formed by the remains of plants in the ground on land, and petroleum was formed when tiny plants and animals died in the ocean, sank to the bottom and were buried under many layers of rock and sand.
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∙ 12y agoCrude oil, coal, gas.
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∙ 11y agocoal :)
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Fuel formed from the remains of plants and animals that lived thousands of years ago?
Fossil fuel.
What type of fuel formed by the remains of sea creatures and plants millions of years ago?
fossil fuel
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 is fuel formed from the remains of plants and animals that lived thousand of years ago?
Fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas) are formed from the remains of plants and animals. Three hundred million years' of pressure turned the organic matter into fuel.
Is a fossil fuel formed form the remains of marine plants and animals?
Yes, fossil fuel is formed from fossils.
What is the solid fossil fuel formed from the remains of swamp plants?
Coal
Is oil a fuel or a fossil fuel?
Petroleum, a substance also known as oil or crude oil is a fossil fuel as it was formed from the remains of plants that died millions of years ago.
What is a fossil fuel formed from remains of marine plants and animals?
oil :) -AJ
What fossil fuel formed from the remains of buried plants in ancient swamps?
coal
What is the fossil fuel formed from the remains of marine plants and animals?
oil
Why is natural gas referred to as fossil fuel?
Because it is formed from the remains of dead plants and animals, thus, its "fuel" from a "fossil".
What is solid fossil fuel formed from plant remains?
Different fossil fuels are derived from different sources. The fossil fuels which are formed from the remains of marine plants and animals are crude oil and natural gas.
