KYTL+5.3

Vocabulary

 * Sediment**- a small, soild piece of material that come from rocks or living things
 * Erosion**- occurs wen running water or wind loosen and carry the fragments of rocks away
 * Deposition**- the process which sediments settles out of the water or wind carrying it
 * Compaction**- the process that squeezes sediments together
 * Cementation**-the process which dissolved minerals crystallize and glue particles of sediments together
 * Clastic rock**- a sedimentary rock that forms when rock fragments squeezed togethera
 * Organic rock**- a sedimentary rock that forms where the remains of livig things are deposited in thick layers
 * Chemical rock**- a sedimentary rock that forms when minerals dissolve in a solution and crystallize

From Sediment to Rocks

 * form from sediments moved by erosion
 * Erosion
 * 3 forces
 * wind
 * water
 * ice
 * Deposition
 * after sediment has been deposited, the processes of compaction and cementation change the sediment into sedimentary rock