Sedimentary Rocks

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

• cementation
• deposition
• organic rock

Which is smaller?
Clay or Silt

• Clay
• Silt

What size sediment makes sandstone?

• Pebble
• Silt
• Sand

How is sediment classified/grouped?

• By color
• By hardness
• By size

Sedimentary rocks are formed by

• Cooling of lava or magma
• Heat and pressure
• Compacting and cementing

What does clastic mean?

• Compacted sediment
• Magma made the rock
• The rock has crystals 

How is sediment formed?

• Weathering and Erosion
• Melting
• Pressure

What is the breaking down of rocks?

• Weathering
• Clastic
• Vesicular

What is deposition?

• Pieces of sediment come to rest on a surface

• Movement of sediment

• Breaking down of sediment

Fossils are made by

• Plants dying
• Animals or plants are imprinted on a layer of sedimentary rock
• Breaking down of rocks