Level 4️⃣ Video #2: Sedimentary Rocks & Fossil Fuels

Weathering does what to rocks?

• carries them away to a new location. 

• breaks them down into smaller pieces called sediments. 

• sits the sediments down to form new layers of rock. 

Erosion does what to sediments?

• carries them away to a new location. 

• breaks them down into smaller pieces.

• sits them down to form layers. 

Deposition creates ________ of sediment. 

• layers

• piles

• new location

• the breaking

What does compaction mean? 

• Compaction is when sediments are squeezed closer together.

• Compaction is the weight of water.

• Compaction is the time it takes for water and sediments to settle in layers.

What occurs to bind sediments together?

• compaction

• cementation

What two processes turn sediments into rock?

• The two processes that turn sediment to rock are compaction and pressure.

• The two processes that turn sediment to rock are compaction and precipitation.

• The two processes that turn sediment to rock are compaction and cementation.

Sedimentary Rock is made of...

• layers of sediments laid down over time that have been compacted and cemented.

• rock that has come from a volcano and hardened into rock.

• rock that has been mixed with other types of rock to form a new type of rock through heat.