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    Millions of years ago, swamp plants that died sank to the bottom of swamps that covered large parts of the Earth. Over time, layers of the decayed plants were buried under mud and sand, forming peat. The peat and sediment were slowly turned into rock, transforming the peat into coal through heating and compression over millions of years.

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    Millions of years ago, swamp plants that died sank to the bottom of swamps that covered large parts of the Earth. Over time, layers of the decayed plants were buried under mud and sand, forming peat. The peat and sediment were slowly turned into rock, transforming the peat into coal through heating and compression over millions of years.

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    Millions of years ago, swamp plants that died sank to the bottom of swamps that covered large parts of the Earth. Over time, layers of the decayed plants were buried under mud and sand, forming peat. The peat and sediment were slowly turned into rock, transforming the peat into coal through heating and compression over millions of years.

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    Millions of years ago, swamp plants that died sank to the bottom of swamps that covered large parts of the Earth. Over time, layers of the decayed plants were buried under mud and sand, forming peat. The peat and sediment were slowly turned into rock, transforming the peat into coal through heating and compression over millions of years.

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    What Are Fossil Fuels?

    Diagrams can show the sequence in a process. The diagram below shows how
    coal is formed.

    How Coal Forms

    1. Millions of years ago, 2. Layers of decayed 3. The mud and sand


    swamps covered large plants formed a soft turned to rock. Slowly the
    parts of Earth’s land. material called peat. Over peat changed into coal.
    When swamp plants died, time the peat was buried
    they sank to the bottom. under mud and sand.

    Answer these questions about the stages above.

    1. What happened to the swamp plants when they died?

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    2. What material formed from the layers of decayed plants?

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    3. Look at the third stage above. How was coal formed?

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