2007-04-16 11:41:24 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment
Fossil fuel is a general term for buried combustible geologic deposits of organic materials, 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.
So I would say wood is not a buried deposit of organic material formed from decayed plants and animals and cannot be converted to a fossil fuel???
2007-04-16 11:49:50 · answer #1 · answered by maegenr8 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Coal is made under the earth from ancient deposits of plant matter under heat and pressure. Wood just grows.
Wood is not a fossil. Fossils are encased in rock.
2007-04-16 11:45:18 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Coal and other petroleum products are called fossil fuels because they're made from fossils and organic material compressed under ground over millions of years. wood isn't a fossil fuel because it's not made of fossils.
2007-04-16 11:51:54 · answer #3 · answered by fruitbat427 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Wood is part of the carbon cycle.
Coal was removed from the carbon cycle for millenia and safely tucked away under layers of rock until humans discovered they could be lazy and burn it instead of chopping down trees.
2007-04-16 11:51:09 · answer #4 · answered by co2_emissions 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wood isn't fossilized.
2007-04-16 11:43:35 · answer #5 · answered by ExSarge 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
fossil fuels aren't renewable as well as just being fossilized.
2007-04-16 12:09:38 · answer #6 · answered by Stan S 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Trees are living -- not fossils.
Trees are also renewable (you can plant new ones when you cut down the old ones and wait 30 years).
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2007-04-16 11:45:15 · answer #7 · answered by tlbs101 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋