Scientific evidence indicates that fossil fuels (oil, coal, and natural gas) form in areas where plates are colliding and tiny, dead organisms can get buried deep in the crust as those plates collide. This means scientists expect to find fossil fuel deposits near the edges of continents. However, large fossil fuel deposits are also found in deserts and even in arctic areas where conditions are currently not suitable for fossil fuels to form. 9. Put the following steps in chronological order (first at the top to last at the bottom) to communicate a logical explanation for how the above situation can be caused. (1 point)
1. Fossil fuels form in areas where plates are colliding and dead organisms are buried deep in the crust.
2. Over millions of years, the continents move due to plate tectonics.
3. Deposits of fossil fuels that formed near the edges of continents are carried to deserts and arctic areas by the movement of continents.
4. The continents may have been in different positions in the past, where conditions were suitable for fossil fuels to form.
5. This explains why large fossil fuel deposits are found in areas that currently do not have the conditions for their formation.