Coal, oil and gas Lesson 59 of the geography course of Mova's primary school: 20 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: the lesson at school .
0 Coal, oil and natural gas are called fossil fuels because they are made from living things that died millions of years ago. 1 When we burn them we release sunlight that ancient plants caught long before the dinosaurs. 2 Coal is squashed swamp forest, mostly from the Carboniferous period, about 360-300 million years ago. 3 Bogs today show the first step: peat, partly rotted plants that people in Ireland and Scotland cut and burned on their fires. 4 Oil and gas come from tiny sea plankton buried in mud and slowly cooked by the heat underground. 5 Coal powered the Industrial Revolution from the late 1700s, but miners paid dearly: explosions, roof falls and lung disease, and in Britain even young children worked underground until 1842. 6 Burning fossil fuels gives off carbon dioxide, the main cause of today's global warming, and smoke that harms people's lungs. 7 They took millions of years to form and we are using them up in centuries, so countries are turning to the sun and wind; Britain closed its last coal power station in 2024. 8 Coal, oil and natural gas are fossil fuels made from the remains of plants and tiny sea creatures buried millions of years ago. 9 Coal formed mostly from swamp forests of the Carboniferous period, about 360-300 million years ago. 10 Oil and gas formed from tiny sea plankton buried in mud and cooked slowly underground. 11 Coal powered the Industrial Revolution, which began in Britain in the late 1700s. 12 Coal mining was dangerous: explosions, roof falls and lung disease killed many miners. 13 Children worked in British coal mines until a law of 1842 banned children under ten from working underground. 14 Burning fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide, the main cause of today's global warming. 15 Burning coal and oil also pollutes the air with soot and gases that cause millions of early deaths each year. 16 Oil spills poison seas and coasts and kill seabirds, fish and other wildlife. 17 Fossil fuels are non-renewable: they took millions of years to form and we are using them up in centuries. 18 Countries are switching to solar, wind and other clean energy, which burn no fuel and give off no carbon dioxide while they work, and Britain closed its last coal power station in 2024. 19 Peat is partly rotted plant matter in bogs, the first step towards coal, and was burned for fuel in Ireland and Scotland. ← previous Deep time and the story of lifenext → Metals, mining and what they cost↑ back to Geography This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/59-coal-oil-and-gas/