Formation of Sedimentary Rock

What are the processes that form Sedimentary Rocks?

• Weathering and Erosion

• Fossil Fuels

• Weathering, Erosion, Deposition, Compaction and Cementation

• Erosion and Deposition

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What process drops sediments in a new location?

• Weathering

• Deposition

• Erosion

• Compaction

What process help rocks melt together using heat and pressure?

• Cementation

• Deposition

• Compaction

• Weathering

What process help "glue" the sediments together?

• Deposition

• Heat and Pressure

• Compaction

• Cementation

How and where is coal formed?

• Coal is form by layers of dead plants at the bottom of swamps.

• Coal is form in the bottom of oceans by organic materials

• Coal is form at the youngest layers of rock by shells.

• Coal is form by dead trees on the ground.

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What process breaks up rock into smaller pieces?

• Deposition

• Layers of Sediments

• Weathering

• Compaction

Fossils are best evidence about?

• How rocks changed over time

• How to use energy

• The plants and animals that lived a long time ago.

• The climate today.

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If you found a fossil of a fern leaf, what would you guess about the area where it was found?

• an ocean was once there

• a forest was once there

• a desert was once there

• an ice glacier was once there

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If you found a Woolly Mammoth tusk in the desert, what would you guess about that area millions of years ago?

• it was very hot and dry

• Woolly Mammoths liked sand

• it was cold there millions of years ago

• it never changed

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Small pieces of rock

• imprint

• sediments

• erosion

• boulders