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Because that's how it is. (apart from your spelling error of martensite)

Please refer to the excellent explanation and diagrams right here: http://www.roymech.co.uk/Useful_Tables/Matter/Phase_diagram.html

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If you take a book about the diagram you find ALL answers to the 3 questions. You could as well use wikipedia or other sources you get via GOOGLE.

It is better to use the skills of CR4 when the explanations are not clear or when your questions ask for more detailed answers. As your questions are you are at the "start" and all sources in the net will give all what you need.

Try first to make an effort before you ask for pre-chewed input.

That's it. Iron itself appears as an allotropic element that changes structure according temperature, due to the internal energy associated with temperature.

It's CCC up to 723 (called ferrite-alfa), CFC on, and CCC again up to around 1100 deg (typ) (called ferrite-delta). When quickly cooled from austenite region to ferrite, there's no time enough to carbon to diffuse in the iron matrix, and it gets traped in the structure deforming it to a tetragonal shaped structure, what's called martensite.

Do you have any specific doubt about it?