Sediments
Organic sedimentary rocks
chemical sedimentary rocks
creation of sedimentary rocks
Potluck
100
loose materials such as rock fragments, mineral grains, and bits of shell that have been moved by wind, water, or gravity.
What are sediments?
100
A type of sediment that were once living things.
what are organic sedimentary rocks?
100
It forms from dissolved minerals that come from solution.
What is chemical sedimentary rocks?
100
The main way to create sedimentary rocks
What is cementation and compaction?
100
A rock made from sediments
What is a sedimentary rock?
200
dark dense rocks
what are basaltic rocks
200
The most fossil rich sedimentary rock?
What is limestone
200
A chemical sedimentary rock that forms from halite
What is rock salt?
200
The distance that a sediment travel affects...
What is roundness?
200
The three types of sedimentary rocks
What is detrial,organic, and chemical?
300
The percent of sedimentary rocks on the surface of the Earth?
75%
300
Animals that make their shells from CaCO3.
What is mussels, clams, corals, and snails
300
A chemical sedimentary rock that makes up New mexico's white sand
What is gypsum?
300
When a sediment is exposed to water, wind, or ice it becomes unstable and causes...
What is erosion?
300
An organic sedimentary rock made from dead plants.
What is coal?
400
How are the roundness of sediments determined?
By how long they have traveled
400
a rock that is made completely of shell fragements.
What is coquina?
400
The percentage of calcite that has to be in limestone?
What is 50 percent?
400
When layer upon layer of sediments are placed on top of each other, they make pressure.
What is compaction?
400
A chemical sedimantary rock made from halite
What is rock salt?
500
Where are most sediments found?
What is everywhere
500
A black, organic sedimentary, rock that our science book lists, made of dead plants
What is coal?
500
The cause of the limestone in kansas?
What is oceans?
500
When sediments are to big to stick together, it makes a cement-like material that grabs the sediments together.
What is cementation?
500
Black, metallic luster...( it was shown on friday)
what is the luster of coal?
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