Question

What do you mean by fossil and fossil fuel environment and ecology?

Answer 1

When plants and animals die their remains eventually begin to decay (rot). Left undisturbed these remains begin to accumulate. Some is eaten and recycled by insects etc. Regardless it eventually becomes part of the soil. As other things die they end up on top other previous remains and so on and so forth. This creates layers and over time, like hundreds of thousands of years, the layers build up and compress. If you’ve even made your own compost or mulch you’ll have some idea of the effect. Heat is generated and with the compression the form begins to change. Cutting a long story short, and I really am simplifying this enormously, over millions of years these “fossilized” remains turn into many of the resources we are now digging up; coal, oil, iron, copper, diamonds, gold, etc, etc, you get the general gist.

As the compression and heat process advances some of these fossilized store carbon. When we dig them up and burn them carbon is released in the process. This previously stored carbon once released adds to the natural carbon levels in the atmosphere. Normally the planet produces carbon and it has it’s own natural carbon storage and recycling abilities that keep the balance and give us the stable climatic conditions which have allowed life as we know it to develop and flourish.

Answer 2

fossil means the skeletal form of any organism which is burried for soo many years , fossil fuel means the fuel extracted from the fossil