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When plants die on land what fossil fuel is most likely to form?
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∙ 11y ago
first it becomes coal,after a thousands of years later,in extremely high pressure in side the earth,the heat changes it into kerosene or petrol.
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What material is compressed underground to form fossil fuels?
Dead plants and animals
Do power plants burn fossil fuels?
Some power plants do. Any plant that burns oil, coal, or gas from underground resources could be considered a "fossil fuel" plant. There are however nuclear, solar, hydro-electric and wind powered power plants.
How does a carbon atom get from the atmosphere to a fossil fuel?
Fossil fuels were at one time living organisms (usually plants). The plants took in carbon dioxide from the air and then release oxygen. The carbon is stored in the plant. When the plant dies, the carbon stays in it, throughout the transformations it goes through to become a fossil fuel. When the fuel is burned, the carbon is release in the burning process, usually in the form of carbon dioxide.
Why you call fossil fuel non renewable?
Because fossil fuels take hundreds of millions of years to form (they are made from ancient plants and animals) and thus can not be renewed (replenished) in human timescales.
What is the solid fossil fuel formed from the remains of swamp plants?
Coal
Is a fossil fuel formed form the remains of marine plants and animals?
Yes, fossil fuel is formed from fossils.
What material is compressed underground to form fossil fuels?
Dead plants and animals
Carbon in fossil fuel is obtained from plants by the process of?
Fossil fuel is obtained from plants by the process of photosynthesis.
Animals and plants that live in the oceans form which fossil fuel?
oil, which is pretty suprising... merf.
Are fossil fuel nonrenwable?
yes because a fossil fuel is a nonrenewable energy resource formed form the remains of plants and animals that lived long ago plus if it is burned then we can not get more
Fossil fuel are made from?
plants and animals
What are nonrenewable resources made from decayed plants?
fossil fuels
How does coal relate to plants?
Coal is a type of fossil fuel, and fossil fuels are made out of dead plants and animals.
Made from ancient plants and animals?
Fossil fuel
Where does fossil fuel com from?
fossil fuel comes from the ground and is made of decaying plants and animals over millions of years.
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".
Kind of fuel made from ancient plants?
Fossil fuel.
