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Question

Sara was reading a fossil fuel life narrative that stated that before dinosaurs, many giant plants, trees, ferns, and microorganisms died in the swamps and were buried over millions of years. Heat and pressure were applied to the lifeless plants, and life came back as?

  1. Sedimentary rock
  2. Natural gas
  3. Coal
  4. Oil

hintHint:

Many giant plants, trees, ferns, and microorganisms died in the swamps and were buried over millions of years. Heat and pressure were applied to the lifeless plants, and life came back as peat which is a form of coal.

The correct answer is: Coal


    • Petroleum, often known as crude oil, is an organic liquid that dates back to the Carboniferous epoch, between 200 and 400 million years ago.
    • Peat was created by plants, ferns, trees, and algae and over millions of years transformed into crude oil, natural gas, and coal.

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