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(Apex) Which best describes how fossil fuels form?
A. Farms are used to produce natural gas.
B. Natural gas is burned to form coal and oil.
C. Sunlight converts grass to coal and oil.
D. Decayed organisms are compressed underground.

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D

fossil fuels form when decayed organisms are compressed underground.

Explanation:

Usually, when biotic matter especially algae and plankton die they sink to the bottom of the oceans. They get overlaid by layers of sediments over time. As the layers of sediment increase, the pressure from the overlying weight causes the organic matter (which is largely carbon-based) to be compressed, and high temperatures associated with the high pressure,  causing them to metamorphose into crude oil.

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Answer:

Decayed organisms are compressed underground hence why they call them fossil fuels.

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