What are tiny bits of minerals called?

Why are sedimentary rocks the easiest to break apart?

What element is the sedimentary rock, Coal, made of?

What can geologists learn find from sedimentary rocks?

What happens when sediment settles (drops)?

Whycan Sediment be moved?

What can be found in sedimentary rocks?

What are sedimentary rocks best recognized by?

What is one sedimentary rock that has great economic significance? Why/ what is it used for?

What helps cement sediment together?

How does sediment build up?

How are fossils made?

What is another name for layers?

What makes sediment?

What are two good examples of sedimentary rock that is used for building?

What helps create a sedimentary rock?

Where can you find fossils?

Where are sedimentary rocks found?

What two forces help create sediment?

Where are most sedimentary rocks formed?

What helps create a sedimentary rock?

What can a fossil help you learn?

What are sedimentary rocks often referred to as?

What natural forces can weather rock?

Name two out of four well-known sedimentary rocks

Sediment

They are made up of bits of rock that have been pressed together, not welded.

Carbon

Geologists can work out what our past environments were like.

The sedimetn settles, or deposits, in one place and piles up.

Because sediment is so small, water and wind can easily move it and depost it in different locations

Fossils

Sedimentary rocks are best recognized by their layers.

Coal; used for generating elecricity

Minerals that get mixed into the sediment help cement the sediment together.

Sediments can build up, layer by layer

Over time, layers of sediment buried plants and animals, forming sedimentaryrock. The plants and animals, or imprints of them, sometimes hardened and remained in the rock.

Strata

Pieces of rock, sand, and dirt

Limestone and sandstone

Weight and pressure

Look for fossils whereancient oceans, lakes, or rivers used to be.

These rocks are formed in a wide variety of environments on Earth's surface.

Sediment is created through weathering and erosion.

Most sedimentary rocks are formed in a seabed.

Weight and pressure

A fossil can help you learn about what once lived in an area.

Secondary rocks

Wind, water, and ice all weather rocks

sandstone, limestone,mudstone, shale