Fossil Fuels and Sedimentary Rock Formation

How do layers of sediment on the ocean floor form sedimentary rock?

• the weight of the ocean compacts the sediments into rocks
• temperature melts them into rocks
• sand turns them into rocks

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How does beach sand turn into sandstone (sedimentary rock)

• weathering an d erosion
• compaction and cementation
• melting and cooling
• dissolving and evaporating

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U shaped valleys are formed by 

• hurricanes
• flooding
• glaciers
• wind

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Hows are canyons formed?

• glaciers erode the rock
• wind erodes the rock
• ice wedging breaks it
• floods eroded the sandstone (sedimentary rock)

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How are deltas formed?

• rivers deposit large amounts of sediment from land erosion
• wind erosion carried the sediment
• hurricanes blew the sediments there

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What causes deep cracks to form on large rocks?

• wind erosion
• deposition
• water freezing and thawing

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___________________ form wide valleys.

• glaciers
• lava
• wind erosion
• water erosion

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erosion

• move it
• drop it
• break it

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deposition

• move it
• drop it
• break it

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weathering

• move it
• drop it
• break it

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