Marine Sediment

Rounded hard lumps of manganese, iron, and other metals.

• Manganese rocks

• Manganese nodules

• Metal nodules

• Manganese tubercles

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

Zone where most biogenous sediment is found

• neritic

• pelagic

• limnetic

• trench

Calcareous ooze is found on the shallower areas of the ocean floor beneath warmer surface water.

• True

• False

Diatom and Radiolarians make up this type of ooze

• siliceous (silica/glass)

• calcareous (calcium/chalk)

This mineral is glass-like and is part of biogenous sediment,

• selenium

• glassonium

• silica

• iron oxide

Foraminifers and Coccolithophores make up this type of ooze

• silaceous (silica/glass)

• calcaerous (calcium/chalk)

This type of sediment comes from parts of once living things

• lithogenous

• biogenous

• hydrogenous

• cosmogenous

This mineral is chalky and is part of biogenous sediment

• chalkanium

• calcium carbonate

• silica

• iron oxide

Sediments found along continental margins and near islands

• neritic deposits

• pelagic deposits

• abyssal deposits

• bathyl deposits

The white cliffs of Dover formed mostly from tests of

• diatoms

• radiolarians

• coccolithophores

• formanifers

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS2-5