Sedimentary Rocks

How do sedimentary rocks form? 

• Forms when small particles of rock or remains from plants and animals are pressed and cemented together

• Form from lava that erupted onto Earth’s surface and cools & hardens

• Forms when magma hardens beneath Earth’s surface Slow cooling magma beneath the surface

• Forms when a rock is changed by heat and/or pressure

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Small solid pieces of material that come from rocks or living things defines 

• weathering

• erosion

• Sediment

• lava

Breaking down of rocks by freezing/thawing, organisms, or other forces describes

• transportation

• deposition

• weathering and erosion

• compaction

Material can be carried by wind or water far from its origin describes

• weathering and erosion

• transportation

• cementation

• deposition

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Sediment settles out of water or wind into layers describes

• Compaction

• Cementation

• Transportation

• Deposition

Sediment layers are squeezed and pressed together under weight of above layers describes

• compaction

• cementation

• weathering and erosion

• transportation

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Dissolved minerals glue compacting sediment together describes

• Compaction

• Cementation

• Deposition

• Transportation

Dissolved minerals/materials precipitate in solutions.

This describes what type of sedimentary rock?

• clastic

• chemical

• organic

Form from parts of plants or animals.

This describes what type of sedimentary rock?

• clastic

• chemical

• organic

Breccia

Conglomerate

Sandstone

Siltstone

Shale

These are all examples of what type of sedimentary rocks?

• clastic

• chemical

• organic