Question

9. What is petroleum? How is it formed?

Answer 1

A so-called fossil fuel, petroleum is believed by most scientists to be the transformed remains of long dead organisms. The majority of petroleum is thought to come from the fossils of plants and tiny marine organisms.


How petroleum form?

Millions of years ago, algae and plants lived in shallow seas. After dying and sinking to the seafloor, the organic material mixed with other sediments and was buried. Over millions of years under high pressure and high temperature, the remains of these organisms transformed into what we know today as fossil fuels. Coal, natural gas, and petroleum are all fossil fuels that formed under similar conditions.

Answer 2

hey mate here is the answer....

petroleum is a fossil fuels which are formed due the deposition of the dead bodies of sea animals under high temperature and pressure.... the convert into oil .. this is what the petroleum is formed..

hope it helps you.