rock cycle review

__________ consists of solid material that has been deposited on Earth's surface by wind, water, ice, gravity, or chemical precipitation.

• Cementation

• Sediment

• Clastic sediments

• Deposition

Glaciers and landslides tend to create __________ in which sediments of different sizes are mixed together.

• lithification

• physical weathering

• unsorted deposits

• cementation

During __________, the minerals in a rock are dissolved or otherwise chemically changed.

• chemical weathering

• deposition

• cementation

• physical weathering

The process by which mineral growth binds sediment grains together into solid rock is __________.

• chemical weathering

• depositions

• cementation

Weathering produces __________, which are rock and mineral fragments.

• clastic sediments

• sorted deposits

• unsorted deposits

• cementation

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

When sediments become cemented together, they form _________________________.

• sediment

• sedimentary rock

• sorted deposits

• clastic sediments

As a result of _________________________ , sediments are laid down on the ground or on

            the bottom of bodies of water.

• lithification

• cementation

• depositions

• physical weathering

The physical and chemical process called _________________________ transforms sediments

            into sedimentary rocks.

• chemical weathering

• cementation

• deposition

• lithification

During _________________________ , minerals remain chemically unchanged, and rock

            fragments simply break off of the solid rock along fractures or grain boundaries.

• chemical weathering

• cementation

• physical weathering

• deposition

Sediments tend to form _________________________ when transported by water and wind.

• sorted deposits

• unsorted deposits

• sedimentary rock

• clastic sediments

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4