A) minerals (A) plants and animals (A) inorganic matter(A) water and grass
2006-06-27 13:07:13 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
Fossil fuels, coal, oil and natural gas, are a non-renewable source of energy. Formed from plants and animals that lived up to 300 million years ago, fossil fuels are found in deposits beneath the earth. The fuels are burned to release the chemical energy that is stored within this resource. Energy is essential to moden society as we know it. Over 85% of our energy demands are met by the combustion of fossil fuels.
When plants and animals died, their bodies decomposed and were buried under layers of earth. Millions of years later we have the three forms of fossil fuel: oil, natural gas and coal.
2006-06-27 13:11:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is some confusion with the term "fossil fuels". Fossils are not converted into fossil fuels. The term fossil fuels is used to describe naturally occurring carbon deposits (coal) and liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons (oil and gas). I will try to explain it in the most simple terms possible. Coal is the remains of vast areas of prehistoric swamp land vegetation where the dead plants were covered with water and over long periods of time built up and became compressed. The compression process gradually converted them to a fossilized state containing mainly carbon with other hydrocarbons which can now be mined and used as fuel. Oil is the result of minute sea life (plankton etc.) falling to the bottom of the sea and being covered other deposits causing it to break down in anaerobic conditions. The break down products of this process are oil and gas. I am sorry to say that Daniel Escurel is totally confused and misinformed and his answer makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. Dinosaurs have nothing to do with fossil fuels at all and as to the idea on them still living in caves is a complete fantasy.
2016-03-20 10:22:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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Fossils Fuels are made from.?
A) minerals (A) plants and animals (A) inorganic matter(A) water and grass
2015-08-15 12:32:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually all answers are true.
Mineral oil or coal are some kind of minerals, because they arose like some "stones".
But actually they are made of ancient animals and plants, lived in the prehistoric ages, died and under great pressure and temperature subterrestrial they become fossils or fossil fuels, which is an inorganic material.
And finally grass can be converted to coal and oil (and mineral gas), just use enough pressure and heat, and wait for 1 or 2 million years.
2006-06-27 13:19:34 · answer #4 · answered by dj_homa 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Most any organic material initially, but fossil fuel itself is made up of hydrocarbons. Hydrogen + carbon.
2006-06-27 13:31:08 · answer #5 · answered by solitusfactum 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If this is for a test then plants and animals. If you really want the answer then it's not made from dead plants and animals, it was a good idea at the time but not anymore. Look into some of the alternative ideas for the creation of oil, because it's NOT compressed animal and plant matter. People have this crazy notion that anything we've heard over and over MUST be true.
2006-06-27 13:17:16 · answer #6 · answered by Tony, ya feel me? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
plants and animals that have died millions of years ago and under thousands of years of compression from various layers of earth...thermo compression transforms the matter in to oil and coal.
2006-06-27 14:25:00 · answer #7 · answered by voni 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All Of the Above
2006-06-27 13:12:00 · answer #8 · answered by pifas_tcolot 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Plants & animals that have decomposed, then become compressed.
2006-06-27 13:10:49 · answer #9 · answered by emmabell22 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dead organic matter. I think most of it is the remains of ancient seas.
2006-06-27 13:15:19 · answer #10 · answered by dgrhm 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋