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Which fossil fuel formed from swamp plants under heat and pressure?

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  1. 1 Easy

    Where did fossil fuels originally capture their stored chemical energy from?

    Answer: The Sun

    Why: Most coal formed in the Carboniferous, 300 to 360 million years ago, so it stores sunlight captured long before the first dinosaurs.

  2. 2 Medium

    Which biofuel from fermented corn and sugarcane is blended into standard gasoline?

    Answer: Ethanol

    Why: Nearly all US gasoline is E10, about 10 percent ethanol, while Brazil lifted its mandatory blend to 32 percent on 1 August 2026.

  3. 3 Hard

    Which effect converts temperature differences to voltage?

    Answer: Seebeck effect

    Why: The Seebeck effect enables deep-space probes to generate continuous electricity from the heat of radioactive decay.

  4. 4 Easy

    What element does the Sun make by fusing hydrogen in its core?

    Answer: Helium

    Why: Every second, the Sun fuses roughly 600 million tons of hydrogen into helium in its core.

  5. 5 Medium

    What energy source ultimately drives the wind?

    Answer: solar radiation

    Why: Wind is solar energy in motion: the sun heats the air unevenly, then Earth's rough surface and its spin bend the flow.

  6. 6 Hard

    About how many times more energy-dense is uranium-235 than coal?

    Answer: 2 to 3 million times

    Why: One kilogram of uranium-235 can release about 24 million kilowatt hours of heat; a kilogram of coal gives roughly eight.

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