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FREE EARTH SCIENCE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT
SEDIMENTARY EXAM QUESTIONS
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-Guarantee passing score -16 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation Question 1: What the following rocks have in common: sandstone, shale, conglomerate, and breccia
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Common clastic sedimentary rocks Question 2: The type of rock that is made from bits of rock cemented and compacted together.
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Clastic sedimentary rock
Question 3: Organic sedimentary rock
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Rock with bits of bone, shell, or other once-living matter
Question 4: Detrital
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A synonym for clastic sedimentary rock
Question 5: Grain size in clastic sedimentary rocks
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The size of sediments in the rock
Question 6: The order of events that create a sedimentary rock
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WEDCC (weathering, erosion, deposition, compaction, cementation)
Question 7: Erosion
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Carrying sediments from one place to another, by wind, water, ice, and gravity.
Question 8: Deposition
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Sediments piling up on top of each other.
Question 9: Weathering
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The process of breaking down rock by things such as wind, water, and ice.
Question 10: Sediments
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Pieces of rock broken off from other rock by weathering
Question 11: Chemical sedimentary rock
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Rock formed from minerals that were dissolved and recrystallize after evaporation
Question 12: Compaction
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squeezing the sediments together
Question 13: lithification
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The process of forming rock by compaction and cementation Question 14: A rock that has no visible fossils that is in the organic category.
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Bituminous coal
Question 15: Cementation
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Minerals that were dissolved recrystallize (through evaporation)to hold sediments together.Question 16: A rock that is sometimes listed as chemical sedimentary and sometimes listed as organic sedimentary
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Limestone - If it has fossils, it is organic, otherwise it is chemical.
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