Multiple choice

About how long does it take to form fossil fuels?

  1. hundreds of years

  2. thousands of years

  3. millions of years

  4. hundreds of millions of years
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Fossil fuels require specific conditions of heat, pressure, and time to form from organic matter. This process is extremely slow, typically taking hundreds of millions of years.

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