Sediments review

Deposit of soft mud, contains at least 30% skeletal remains of once living organisms

• Ooze

• Pelagic

• Nodule

• Terrigenous

Solid mass of hydrogenous sediment (manganese, ferromanganese, and phosphorite)

• Neritic

• Microtektite

• Nodule

• Diatom

Most abundant single-celled phytoplankton

• Flagella

• Diatom

• Nodule

• Biogenous

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

The study of the ocean's past

• Oceanography

• Palecartography

• Palegeography

• Paleoceanography

Sediments from outer space

• Cosmogenous

• Cosmetologist

• Neritic

• Benthos

Sediments originating from land

• Benthic

• Pelagic

• Terrigenous

• Cosmogenous

Sediments found closer to shore and made of terrigenous material

• Neritic

• Pelagic

Sediments of the open ocean (slope, rise, and deep ocean floor)

• pelagic

• neritic

Particles of glass and a component of cosmogenous sediment

• Microtektites

• Oolite

• Ooze

• Mineral

Sediment formed from precipitation of seawater

• Comogenous

• Biogenous

• Hydrogenous

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4