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There is a popular notion that fossil fuel is made from the remains of dead dinosaurs. This is not correct.
Fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas) developed from organic (living) material subjected to intense heat and pressure over millions of years.
- Oil and gas came from plankton and other tiny organisms.
- Coal came from larger plants and animals, but not dinosaurs.
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How is soil made of?
Mixture of eroded rock and decomposed organic matter.
How do you rewrite this sentence to make it correct Fossil fuels are made from the fossils of dinosaurs?
Fossil fuels are not made from the fossils of dinosaurs.
Why do some dirt's have different colors?
It depends how it was made; what decomposed to form it. GOOD QUESTION
What is the difference between fossils and fossils fuels?
Fossils are the remains of plants and animals, and fossil fuels are decomposed plants and animals that form coal, oil, and natural gas.
How are polymers made into crude oil?
Polymers are not made into crude oil. Crude oil is made into polymers.
What decomposed dinosaurs?
Dinosaurs were decomposed by the same types of organisms that decompose carcasses today, if they weren't scavenged to the bone by a different hungry dinosaur. Such organisms include insects, worms, and bacteria.
-blank- are made up of decayed and decomposed plant and animal matter?
crude oil
How is crude oil formed and extracted from the ground?
Crude oil is made from prehistoric decomposed plants formed millions of years ago, it is extracted using an oil rig. :)
What is oil came from?
Oil comes from decomposed organic material such as plants and animals
What does oil contain?
Oil contains what we call prehistoric substances, such as ancient, decomposed plankton and algae.
What made the dinosaurs?
i believe that God made the dinosaurs.
What did you use oil for when dinosaurs where around?
Contrary to popular belief, oil does not come from dinosaurs. Oil is formed by algae that sinks to the bottom of the ocean and is then buried. Many oil deposits in the world predate the dinosaurs. Additionally, dinosaurs walked the earth for about 160 million years, which is more than enough time for algae to be buried and converted into oil.
When a car runs it requires fossil fuels which includes what?
Decomposed dinosaurs, dead coral & fish from over 300 million years ago under the sea bed. or on land you get coal from decomposed trees, plants & animals etc
How many dinosaurs does it take to make a quart of oil?
Oil is made from plankton. All the fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas) began 300 million years ago, 70 million years before the dinosaurs.
What if there were no dinosaurs what made the oil?
Technically, petroleum is made mostly from algae and somewhat from marine animals that died in anoxic conditions caused by algal blooms hundreds of millions of years ago. Whether dinosaurs had existed or not, there would still be petroleum. As for coal, the plants that formed it lived long before the dinosaurs existed.
Did dinosaurs live in the middle east?
yeah , as there is lot of Oil and gas which proof the existence of dinosaurs
What is sub soil made of?
it is made of decomposed organic matter and and mineral content.
