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When sediment is pressed together and cemented the sediment becomes?
rock.
When sediment fills a mold and becomes rock a blank is created?
When sediment fills a mold and becomes rock, a cast is created. This is a copy or replica of the original organism or object that made the mold, preserved within the rock.
What is the term for bits of rock and dirt?
The term is sediment. Sediment is made up of small pieces of rock, mineral, and organic material that have been broken down by weathering and erosion processes.
During loose sediment becomes sedimentary rock?
During compaction and cementation, loose sediment becomes sedimentary rock. Compaction occurs when the weight of overlying sediments squeezes the grains together, reducing pore space. Cementation involves minerals precipitating in the pore spaces, binding the grains together to form a solid rock. These processes transform loose sediment into a coherent and often layered rock.
What processes turn rock into sediment?
Weathering and erosion break down rock into smaller pieces, or sediment. These processes can be physical (such as wind and water) or chemical (such as acidic reactions). Once the rock is broken down into sediment, it can be transported and deposited in new locations by natural forces like rivers, glaciers, and wind.
How can sedimentary rock becomes a metamorphic rock?
When the metamorphic rock breaks down into sediment. Thus, making the new rock sedimentary because when sediment forms together over time it makes it sedimentary rock
When sediment is pressed together and cemented the sediment becomes?
rock.
What happen to the sediment during deposition?
Becomes rock
What causes rock to become sediment?
Igneous rock becomes sediment due to exposure to chemical and mechanical weathering at or near the surface.
When sediment fills a mold and becomes rock a blank is created?
When sediment fills a mold and becomes rock, a cast is created. This is a copy or replica of the original organism or object that made the mold, preserved within the rock.
What process happens when sediment fills a mold and becomes rock?
Lithification.
What is the process in which sediment is laid down is called?
When sediment is laid down, this is known as deposition. The sediment is unconsolidated and so it is not (yet) a rock.
An igneous rock becomes a sedimentary rock when what occurs?
When an Igneous rock is broken down by physical processes it can become sediment, carried along rivers and waterways to reach the sea and the oceans. When upon the seabed, it is slowly covered by other sediment, and the combined force of the water above and sediment above working with sea mud and other sea deposits forms sedimentary rock.
What happens to rock after it breaks down?
it turns into sediment
What can weathering do to the land?
It breaks down sediment rock
Can a sedimentary rock turn back into a deposit of sediment?
Yes! The process of weathering can "break down" a sedimentary rock and turn it back into a sediment.
How soil erosion might affect rock?
It breaks down rock, creating sediment
