Sedimentary Rock

Sedimentary Rock

Vocabulary Review

• Weathering: the process of breaking rock into smaller pieces

• Erosion: movement of sediment into new locations

• Deposition: dropping of sediment from wind or water that slows down, or from ice that melts

• Sedimentation: layers of sediment building up over millions of years

• Cementation: process that glues compacted particles together

• Clastic Rocks: made of sediments that are weathered, transported, and deposited into layers

• Chemical Rocks: formed from minerals that were weathered, transported, and deposited in layers

Multiple Choice

This rock is made of salts left behind when a shallow sea evaporated. What type of sedimentary rock is it?

• Clastic
• Chemical
• Organic

Multiple Choice

This rock is made of large bits of gravel cemented together. What type of sedimentary rock is it?

• Clastic
• Chemical
• Organic

Multiple Choice

the process in which dissolved minerals crystallize and glue sediment together.

• compaction
• deposition
• organic sedimentary rock
• cementation

Multiple Choice

the process by which running water, wind, or ice carry away bits of broken-up rock

• weathering
• sediment
• erosion
• cememtation

Multiple Choice

What is the correct order of making and dropping off of sediments?

• weathering, erosion, deposition 
• erosion, weathering, deposition
• weathering, deposition , erosion

Multiple Choice

squeezing sediments together in layers

• compaction
• weathering
• cementation
• deposition 

Multiple Choice

the dropping of sediments in layers. 

• compaction
• deposition
• erosion
• weathering

Multiple Choice

Sedimentary rock type made from bits of minerals and other Earth material that were weathered and moved is _?_ sedimentary rock.

• clastic
• chemical
• organic