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Chapter One: How Coal Formed
TEXT-DEPENDENT QUESTIONS
1. What are the stages of coalification?
2. Why is the Carboniferous period so named?
3. What are macerals?
RESEARCH PROJECTS
1. Look up further information on life during the Carboniferous period and the kinds
of fossils found in its coal. Are there any flowers or mammals?
2. Find out more about the links between the US state of Pennsylvania and the time
span called the Pennsylvanian period.