Sedimentary Rocks & Fossils

To make a sedimentary rock it usually takes

• about a week

• about a year

• about a month

• millions of years

What processes melt rocks together?

• erosion

• heat and pressure

• weatheirng

• deposition

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What rock process drops sediments in a new place?

• erosion

• cementation

• weathering

• deposition

If you found this type of fossil it would tell you that a large lake used to be there.

• reptile fossil

• mouse fossil

• freshwater fish fossil

• leaf fossil

The rock layer that is on the top is the

• youngest

• middle aged

• oldest

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What causes sediment to cement or glue together?

• sand and wind

• salt water

• ice from a glacier

• weathering

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When a fossil is found it tells us about the earth's environment that happened a long time ago.

• true

• false

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Sandstone is formed near the beach when sediments are deposited by the action of waves

• true

• false

The preserved parts or traces of animals and plants that lived in the past

• sediment

• fossil

• decay

• weathering

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

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Rock made of layers of compressed organic and inorganic sediments

• decay

• fossil

• sedimentary rock

• sand