SCIENCE
ECOLOGY
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Question
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it is part of decomposing plant and animal matter are under pressure for millions of years
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it is transformed by lava that hits the earth’s surface
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it is changed when it reaches the atmosphere
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water can change carbon into a fossil fuel
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Detailed explanation-1: -Rocks like limestone and fossil fuels like coal and oil are storage reservoirs that contain carbon from plants and animals that lived millions of years ago. When these organisms died, slow geologic processes trapped their carbon and transformed it into these natural resources.
Detailed explanation-2: -Fossil fuels are formed from decayed plants and animals that have been converted to crude oil, coal, natural gas, or heavy oils by exposure to heat and pressure in the earth’s crust over hundreds of millions of years.
Detailed explanation-3: -Carbon moves from fossil fuels to the atmosphere when fuels are burned. When humans burn fossil fuels to power factories, power plants, cars and trucks, most of the carbon quickly enters the atmosphere as carbon dioxide gas.
Detailed explanation-4: -FOSSIL FUELS FORM. After millions of years underground, the compounds that make up plankton and plants turn into fossil fuels. Plankton decomposes into natural gas and oil, while plants become coal. Today, humans extract these resources through coal mining and the drilling of oil and gas wells on land and offshore.