Why is coal a fossil fuel and wood isnt? even though they are both natural resources.?

Question

Why is coal a fossil fuel and wood isnt? even though they are both natural resources.?

Answer 1

fossil fuels aren't renewable as well as just being fossilized.

Answer 2

Fossil fuel is a general term for buried combustible geologic deposits of organic materials, formed from decayed plants and animals that have been converted to crude oil, coal, natural gas, or heavy oils by exposure to heat and pressure in the earth's crust over hundreds of millions of years.

So I would say wood is not a buried deposit of organic material formed from decayed plants and animals and cannot be converted to a fossil fuel???

Answer 3

Coal and other petroleum products are called fossil fuels because they're made from fossils and organic material compressed under ground over millions of years. wood isn't a  fossil fuel because it's not made of fossils.

Answer 4

Trees are living -- not fossils.

Trees are also renewable (you can plant new ones when you cut down the old ones and wait 30 years).

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Answer 5

Wood isn't fossilized.

Answer 6

Coal is made under the earth from ancient deposits of plant matter under heat and pressure. Wood just grows.

Wood is not a fossil. Fossils are encased in rock.

Answer 7

Wood is part of the carbon cycle.

Coal was removed from the carbon cycle for millenia and safely tucked away under layers of rock until humans discovered they could be lazy and burn it instead of chopping down trees.