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GCSE Combined Science · key term
Partly decomposed plant material that builds up over very long periods under waterlogged conditions.
Used by AQA
Specification 4.7.3.3 · Paper 2
Revise: Human Land Use and Habitat DestructionPeat bogs are waterlogged, acidic habitats. When plants die, the lack of oxygen in the waterlogged ground slows decomposition, so their remains do not decay fully. Partly decomposed plant material gradually accumulates to form peat.
Peat stores carbon in partly decomposed plant material, not as trapped carbon dioxide gas. Decay or burning releases carbon dioxide.
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