Unit 3 Quiz Review

​What is SEDIMENT

By Olivia Ceppi

​matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid

Multiple Choice

Small pebbles, pieces of other rock, and sand that sink in liquids are called?

• weathering

• sediment

• erosion

• deposition

​How Sediment MOVES!!

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Changing the SIZE of rock (BIG to SMALLER)

How the smaller rock MOVES

Where the rock STAYS

Multiple Choice

What is the order from BIG to SMALL of the sediment in the picture?

• clay, silt, sand then pebbles
• sand, silt, clay then pebbles
• pebbles, clay, silt then sand
• pebbles, sand, silt then clay

Multiple Choice

When an agent of erosion loses energy, it drops sediments:

• Desalination
• Disagregation
• Deposition
• Delimination

Multiple Choice

The forces that are involved in producing sediments are

• Weathering and Erosion
• Ebb and Flow
• Spring and Neap
• Round and Round

Multiple Choice

When water, wind, ice or gravity removes pieces of rock, __ has occurred.

• Elaboration
• E-filing
• Eliminating
• Erosion

Multiple Choice

Weathering is the breaking down of rock into ___________.

• boulders

• sediment

• ice

• mountains

Multiple Choice

How does freezing water cause the weathering of rocks? The freezing water—

• keeps the rocks in place

• makes the rocks last longer

• causes rocks to fall in landslides

• expands cracks and breaks rocks

​Heat and Pressure

​Compaction and Cementation

​Cooling

​Melting

​Weathering and Erosion

Multiple Choice

A rock formed from fragments of other rocks is a(n)

• Metamorphic Rock
• Sedimentary Rock
• Extrusive Rock
• Igneous Rock

Multiple Choice

This rock was another type of rock that was heated and compressed over time. What type of rock is this?

• Sedimentary
• Igneous
• Metamorphic

Multiple Choice

This rock started as molten magma. What type of rock is this?

• Sedimentary
• Igneous
• Metamorphic

Multiple Choice

This rock was formed by smaller pieces of rock that settled at the bottom of a lake millions of years ago. What type of rock is this?

• Sedimentary
• Igneous
• Metamorphic

Multiple Choice

The process by which metamorphic rocks are formed...

• heat and pressure
• erosion and deposition
• melting and cooling

Multiple Choice

The process by which igneous rocks are formed...

• heat and pressure
• melting and cooling
• weathering and erosion

Multiple Choice

This rock formed when bits of other rocks became pressed into a solid. What type of rock is it?

• Sedimentary Rock
• Metamorphic Rock
• Igneous Rock