Sedimentary Rock
Chemical sediments become sedimentary rock once they are ___________ out of the water.
What is precipitated?
Give one example of physical weathering.
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What is false, directional pressure has more pressure in one direction than another.
The valley created by a fold is the __________.
What is contact?
True or False: Salt flats are created by chemical sediments.
What is true?
What is physical weathering?
The two causes of metamorphism are ________ and ________.
What are pressure and temperature?
What are folds?
This transports and deposits all sizes of sediments without sorting.
What is a glacier?
Name 2 of the 3 types of sediments.
What are clastic, chemical, and biochemical?
Give one example of chemical weathering.
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The composition of the ___________ rock is a factor in its metamorphism.
What is parent rock?
The hill created by a fold is known as the ________.
What is anticline?
Name your favorite animal.
The two steps in the process of lithification are ___________ and _____________.
Name the two types of weathering that can happen to rocks.
What are physical and chemical weathering?
The amount a rock is metamorphosed is known as its _____________ _________.
What is metamorphic grade?
A crack in the bedrock created by stress is known as ________.
What is fault?
Biochemical sediments are used by marine animals to create ______________.
What are shells?
Clastic and biochemical sediments become sedimentary rock through he process of ___________.
What is lithification?
This type of weathering is the process of changing the arrangement of atoms within a rock.
What is chemical weathering?
What is foliated?
Deformation that changes a shape of an object without breaking it.
What is ductile deformation?
The three types of ________ are directly connected to the types of plate tectonics.
What is stress?