2.3 & 2.4 Sedimentary Rocks & Metamorphic Rocks

Compacted layers of rocks are called...

• igneous.

• sedimentary.

• metamorphic.

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Which process forms sediment?

• weathering

• cementation

• compaction

• deposition

What kind of sedimentary rock is made of fragments of rocks cemented together by a mineral?

• chemical

• organic

• clastic

• strafied

What is the process called in which sedimentary rocks are arranged in layers?

• erosion

• extrusion

• weathering

• straification

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

What is strata?

• mineral fragments

• minerals crystallized out of solution

• layers of sedimentary rock

• fossils in sedimentary rock

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

What kind of sedimentary rock is made of fossils?

• organic

• stratified

• chemicial

• clastic

An organic sedimentary rock that forms from heat and pressure on plant material over millions of years is called?

• granite

• limstone

• coal

• marble

Process in which crystals in minerals change in size and composition?

• recrystalization

• deformation

• pressure

• foliation

Metamorphic Rock in which mineral grains are NOT arranged in planes or bands

• foliated

• nonfoliated

• strata

Process other than heat that causes metamorphism?

• Pressure

• heat

• weathering

• melting