Ocean Sediments

Avalanches of turbid water (water carrying sediment) are called?

• Thermohaline currents

• Waves

• Turbidity currents

• Longshore Currents

What is the largest particle in sediment?

• Gravel
• Sand
• Clay
• Silt

Beach deposits are an example of

• hydrogenous sediment.
• cosmogenous sediment.
• biogenous sediment.
• lithogenous sediment.

The ocean floor is made of this kind of rock.

• basalt
• sandstone
• slate
• conglomerate

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Put the sediments in order from smallest sized particles to largest

• clay, silt, sand, gravel
• silt, clay, gravel, sand
• gravel, sand, silt, clay

Put the sediments in order from smallest sized particles to largest

• clay, silt, sand, gravel
• silt, clay, gravel, sand
• gravel, sand, silt, clay

Which of the following is a hydrogenous sediment?

• diatomaceous earth
• silt
• tektites
• manganese nodules

Which of the following is a hydrogenous sediment?

• diatomaceous earth
• silt
• tektites
• manganese nodules

Deep ocean sediments tend to have proportionally _______ biogenous sediment than continental-shelf sediment.

• more
• less

In which environment do neritic deposits not form?

• Close to the shore.
• In deep ocean basins.
• On the continental shelf.
• On the continental slope.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3