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Why are fossil fuel resources sometimes referred to as "buried sunshine"?

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Fossil fuel resources sometimes referred to as "buried sunshine"? Because they make the Earth warm because they are found deep in the Earth and the energy stored in them was obtained from the sun long ago because they produce energy the same way the sun does all of the above.

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All plants or producers which there food by sunlight with help of a process called photosynthesis. These plants are eaten by consumers that is animals and plant eaters are eaten by animal eaters. In this process the energy is transmitted. Although the primary source of energy is sun. These plants and animals when dead are buried under the earth to form fossil fuels. This why fossils are sometimes referred as " buried sunshine"

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