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What is the oldest species of plant still in existence?
lycophytes
Where do fosil fules come from?
There are three major forms of fossil fuels: coal, oil and natural gas. All three were formed many hundreds of millions of years ago before the time of the dinosaurs - hence the name fossil fuels. The age they were formed is called the Carboniferous Period. It was part of the Paleozoic Era. "Carboniferous" gets its name from carbon, the basic element in coal and other fossil fuels
Did any plants become extinct during the Carboniferous period?
There is no doubt of it. There were probably millions of plant species that came and went during the Carboniferous.
Why are coal and oil and natural gas called fossil fuels?
Coal, petroleum,and natural gas, are called fossil fuels because they were formed millions of years ago, during the Carboniferous period.
What is the Mississippian and Pennsylvanian periods grouped together?
The Carboniferous Period
What are some dangers in the carboniferous time period?
what are some dangers in the carboniferous period
Why is the Carboniferous period called the Carboniferous period?
Carboniferous means carbon bearing. Large coal deposits were laid down then, hence the name.
What did lycophytes evolve into?
algae
Do lycophytes produce spores?
YES !
The carboniferous time period came in which era?
paleozoic
In what ways do Moses and club Moses?
The lycophytes are a small and inconspicuous group of plants today, but in the Carboniferous some lycophytes were forest-forming trees more than 35 meters tall. Lycophytes are the oldest extant group of vascular plants, and dominated major habitats for 40 million years. The club mosses (Lycopodiales) are usually evergreen, and have been used as Christmas decorations, though their flammable spores and increasing rarity has made this illegal in some states. Other lycophytes, such as Selaginella, may form extensive carpets in the understory of wet tropical forests. The most significant feature of lycophytes are microphylls, a kind of leaf which has arisen and evolved independently from the leaves of other vascular plants. The microphyll has only a single unbranched strand of vascular tissue, or vein, whereas megaphylls, found in other plants with leaves, have multiple veins, usually branching one or more times within the leaf. Happyfeet360 wrote this.
What were the dominant organisms in the carboniferous time?
The dominant organisms during the carboniferous time period were plants. They were large, vascular, land plants that sometimes grew to be one hundred feet or more.
What is the oldest species of plant still in existence?
lycophytes
How do you use Carboniferous in a sentence?
dodo carboniferous
Are lycophytes simple vascualr plants with creeping leaves?
True
Why is the period of rock formation about 360 million years ago called the Carboniferous Period?
The period is called the Carboniferous because rocks from that time period are rich in coal. The rocks are rich in coal because much of the Earth was covered in swamps. The pete moss was then put under tremendous pressure and heat over millions of years, forming the coal.
Today's coal deposits are mostly derived from?
Horse tails and lycophytes
