Sediments Quiz

What type of sediment will you find most likely in deep oceans?

What would be a characteristic of a passive margin?

Which two sediments will scientists find on the continental slope?

What would be a characteristic of an active type margin?

What are active margins called?

What is the process by which icebergs carry and deposit glacial-marine sediments?

Sediments deposited in an earlier time with different "out-of-place" conditions are called ...

Which is the easiest-eroding material?

What are passive margins called?

What does cohesive mean?

Studying layers of rocks and sediments is called what?

What type of sediment dominates the continental shelf?

What type of sediments originate from volcanoes either submarine or on the continents?

Sediments formed from chemical precipitates (Fallen Precipitation) are called what?

What are sediments from space dust or asteroids called?

Which type of sediments are derived from the erosion and weathering of land?

Which margin type has volcanoes, irregular topography, and earthquakes?

What type of sediments originate from the remains of once-living things?

Free floating organisms that pass and form similar to the way snowflakes form on earth are...

Slumps and Slurries are both examples of what?