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Mr. Chapa's Sedimentary Rocks Vocabulary w/ Pics

Total questions: 21

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The breaking down of rocks into sediments by wind, water, waves, ice, and gravity (WWWIG).

a)

erosion

b)

deposition

c)

weathering

d)

earthquake

2.
Small pieces of broken down rocks like sand, gravel, silt, pebbles and clay.
a)
dirt
b)
gravel
c)
sand
d)
sediments
3.

The movement, transport or carrying away of sediments to a new location by wind, water, waves, ice and gravity (WWWIG).

a)

deposition

b)

erosion

c)

weathering

d)

compaction

4.

The dropping, leaving or depositing of sediments in a new location.

a)

erosion

b)

weathering

c)

deposition

d)

compaction

5.

Rocks that are formed when layers of sediments are compacted and cemented together by pressure over millions of years. Fossils can be found in this type of rock.

a)

igneous rocks

b)

sedimentary rocks

c)

metamorphic rocks

d)

mountainous rocks

6.

When layers of sediments are squeezed together by pressure.

a)

cementation

b)

compaction

c)

sediments

d)

erosion

7.

When the layers of compacted sediments are glued together by salt crystals over millions of years.

a)

sediments

b)

deposition

c)

cementation

d)

rocks

8.

The hardened remains of ancient plants and animals that were turned into rock and are preserved in sedimentary rocks.

a)

fossils

b)

fossil fuels

c)

coal

d)

oil

9.

Things that people use everyday that are made by the Earth.

a)

natural resources

b)

resources

c)

landforms

d)

fossil fuels

10.

This is what the top layers of sediments do to the lower layers of sediments that helps turn the sediments into sedimentary rocks.

a)

pressure

b)

weathering

c)

erosion

d)

deposition

11.

Small broken down pieces of rocks that have been weathered by wind, water, waves, ice and gravity (WWWIG).

a)

sediments

b)

deposition

c)

cementation

d)

rocks

12.
The hardened remains of ancient plants and animals that were preserved in sedimentary rocks. 
a)
fossils
b)
fossil fuels
c)
coal
d)
oil
13.
The remains of ancient plants and animals that were converted into coal, oil and natural gas over millions of years and that are now burned to produce thermal energy.
a)
fossils
b)
fossil fuels
c)
coal
d)
oil
14.
A natural resource that can be replaced in a relatively short period of time like plants, animals, water and soil.
a)
natural resource
b)
renewable resource
c)
nonrenewable resource
d)
inexhaustible resource
15.

A natural resource that can never be replaced because it takes millions of years to form like coal, oil and natural gas.

a)

natural resource

b)

renewable resource

c)

nonrenewable resource

d)

inexhaustible resource

16.

Objects or substances that are burned to produce thermal energy.

a)

fossils

b)

resources

c)

fuels

d)

natural resources

17.

Things or materials that people use everyday.

a)

natural resources

b)

nonrenewable resources

c)

resources

d)

renewable resources

18.

Resources that come from nature that will never run out.

a)

nonrenewable resources

b)

natural resources

c)

renewable resources

d)

inexhaustible renewable resources

19.

A nonrenewable resource made over millions of years from the remains of ancient plants that were buried in places like swamps.

a)

oil or petroleum

b)

natural gas

c)

coal

d)

sedimentary rocks

20.

A nonrenewable liquid resource that was formed from the remains of ancient plants and animals that were buried in the ocean over millions of years.

a)

oil or petroleum

b)

coal

c)

natural gas

d)

sedimentary rocks

21.

A nonrenewable gas resource that was formed from the remains of ancient plants and animals over millions of years in swamps and oceans .

a)

oil or petroleum

b)

coal

c)

sedimentary rocks

d)

natural gas