Question

Describe how coal was formed. What is this process called?

Answer 1

Answer: The plants and animals which were died are covered with soil and due to the high temperature inside the earth these all compressed inside the soil and converted into coal

Explanation:

Answer 2

Formation of coal:

• Coal is formed by decomposition of living organisms which lived million years ago.
• Million years ago, plants and animals lived in a swampy forest. After the animals and plants died, other plants and animals grow instead of earlier organisms.
• The dead organisms form rot and form a layer of decaying things. After sometimes, water and light stop entering that layer.
• This way another layer of dead things will be formed, this way many layers are formed in the span of thousand years.
• When these thing are under heat and pressure for million years, they form coal.