Lesson 6 Sedimentary Rocks

Question 1

What are separate strata?

Answer 1

bedding planes

Question 2

What are traces or remains of prehistoric life?

Answer 2

fossils

Question 3

what clues are in sedimentary rocks?

Answer 3

clues of past environments

Question 4

What are the most important inclusions?

Answer 4

fossils

Question 5

What do sedimentary rocks form from?

Answer 5

sediment

Question 6

What are the types of microcrystalline quartz?

Answer 6

chert
flint
jasper
agate

Question 7

What o processes are in the lithification process?

Answer 7

compaction

cementation

Question 8

What does precipitation through life processes contain?

Answer 8

a biochemical origin

Question 9

What two processes are chemical rocks precipitated through?

Answer 9

physical processes

life processes

Question 10

Study the chart for identification

Answer 10

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Question 11

What type of material is detrital rocks?

Answer 11

solid particles

Question 12

What are the types of evaporites?

Answer 12

rock salt

gypsum

Question 13

What is limestone primarily composed of?

Answer 13

calcite

Question 14

What is the most abundant chemical rock/

Answer 14

limestone

Question 15

What is lithification?

Answer 15

loose sediments are transformed into solid rock

Question 16

What is reconstructed with sedimentary rocks?

Answer 16

earths history

Question 17

Sedimentary rock is a source of what two minerals?

Answer 17

iron and aluminum

Question 18

What is sediment?

Answer 18

weathered products

Question 19

What rock is classified by particle size?

Answer 19

detrital

Question 20

What do these rocks often contain?

Answer 20

fossils

Question 21

How are shells or mineral crystals formed?

Answer 21

as water evaporates and minerals precipitate

Question 22

What is the most abundant detrital rock?

Answer 22

shale

Question 23

What percent out of all rock outcrops on the continents are sedimentary?

Answer 23

75%

Question 24

What are the chief constituents of detrital rock?

Answer 24

clay minerals and quartz

Question 25

What information do sedimentary rocks provide?

Answer 25

information about sediment transport

Question 26

what is the most characteristic feature?

Answer 26

strata or beds

Question 27

What are the types of coal?

Answer 27

lignite | bituminous

Question 28

What can fossils be used for involving rocks and places?

Answer 28

matching rocks from different places

Question 29

Rock _____and rock _____ are chemical rocks that form as water evaporates and triggers the deposition of chemical precipitates.

Answer 29

gypsum and salt

Question 30

What are the two groups of sedimentary rocks?

Answer 30

Detrital | Chemical

Question 31

What are the types of limestone?

Answer 31

coquina chalk travertine

Question 32

What are the three feature of sedimentary rocks?

Answer 32

strata or beds bedding planes fossils

Question 33

What are the common detrital rocks?

Answer 33

shale sandstone conglomerate siltstone

Question 34

How does sedimentary rocks serve as economic importance?

Answer 34

Coal | Petroleum and natural gas

Question 35

What are some types of biological processes

Answer 35

shells or mineral crystals

Question 36

What type of material are chemical rocks derived from?

Answer 36

material that as once in a solution and precipitates to form sediment

Question 37

What can be used as a time indicator?

Answer 37

fossils

Question 38

What are soluble materials produced largely by chemical weathering that are precipitated by either inorganic or organic processes?

Answer 38

Chemical sediments

Question 39

Cementation occurs with the materials such as?

Answer 39

calcite silica iron oxide

Question 40

How are sedimentary rocks produced?

Answer 40

lithification

Question 41

What are microcrystalline quartz?

Answer 41

precipitated quartz

Question 42

_______ sedimentary rocks contain a variety of mineral and rock fragments?

Answer 42

Detrital

Question 43

What are the common chemical rocks?

Answer 43

limestone microcrystalline quartz evaporites coal

Question 44

What are materials that originate and are transported as solid particles derived from weathering?

Answer 44

Detrital sediments

Question 45

What helps determine past environments?

Answer 45

fossils