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Q: What is The builds up as layer after layer of sediments pile on top of each other. It is necessary for the process of compaction?
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This builds up as layer after layer of sediments pile on top of each other. it is necessary for the process of compaction?

Obsidian


What role has moving water played in Earth's surface?

By weathering rock and carrying it away to different places. That process is called erosion. Then it deposits the sediments and builds, which is called deposition.


What role has moving water played in shaping Earth?

By weathering rock and carrying it away to different places. That process is called erosion. Then it deposits the sediments and builds, which is called deposition.


What is it called that builds up as layer after layer of sediments pile on top of each other?

Sedimentation.


What builds up layer after layer of sediments pile up on top of each other?

falling in water


What role has moving water played in shaping Earth's surface?

this causes erosion


How could the movement of sediments cause a problem if someone builds on a green hill?

it can fall down the hill or get buried.


Why is it necessary that the lining of the uterus builds up again between 5-14 days?

It builds up in preparation to receive a fertilized egg and allow it to imbed and begin to grow.


What problems can erosion causes?

it doesn't do that bad because it also carries the sediments that weathering breaks down so it also builds the Earth up


Where did sedimentany rock come from?

Sediments (sand, clay, boulders etc) are derived from the erosion of preexisting rocks by snow, ice, water and wind. Eventually these sediments settle and are covered by more sediments. As the weight of overlying sediments builds up the pressure and minerals dissolved in and carried by groundwater cement the sediment particles together to form a new rock layer. This new rock is called a sedimentary rock.


What is the geology term constructive process?

a process in which a force builds up landmasses on the surface of the Earth


What is the opposite process of respiration?

photosynthesis