Vocabulary
Tiny pieces of rock, sand, or mud
What is sediment?
Sediment piles up in this type of environment
What can be found inside of sedimentary rock?
Fossils
When water or wind MOVE pieces of rock, this is called ___.
What is erosion?
Information that supports and idea
What is Evidence?
What is a fossil?
True or False: There is only one kind of sedimentary rock.
The rock layers found at the bottom are the _____.
What is oldest?
Rock layers tell scientists about
What is how the environment once was
Major geological event that occurs when plates shift suddenly and release stored energy; a frequent occurrence along all types of plate boundaries
What is an Earthquake?
A thick sheet of rock formed from the same material
What is a rock layer?
True or False: Sedimentary rock forms only in one type of environment
The youngest rock layers are found at the _____.
Rock layers with seashell fossils tell us the environment was once..
What is under water?
A design or sequence that is repeated
What is a pattern?
A tool scientists use to answer questions about how and why things happen
Over time sand and silt compacts and cements to form this...
What is sedimentary rock?
If limestone formed first, then sandstone, and finally mudstone.
Which layer is the oldest? Which is the youngest?
Oldest: limestone
Youngest: mudstone
How can rock layers show that an earthquake occurred?
What is a crack in the layers?
Tells scientists which organism lived in that environment years ago
What are fossils?
The features of an area that you can see
What is a landscape?
True or False: Sedimentary rock takes a LONG time to form
True
True
How do we know how old fossils are?
What is the arrangement of rock layers?
Rock arrangements such as sea stacks, sea arches, gorge, and mesas created by weathering and erosion
What is rock formations?