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This shows the La Conchita 1995 Landslide. Credit: USGS.

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1 Yes or No, Sedimentary rocks can occur before sediments are made.

Yes
No

2 Yes or No, Igneous rocks can occur before sediments are made.

Yes
No

3 Complete the text:

Match up the form or type of sediment with the effect:
morainic drift - A
glacial till - B
landslide - C
lahar - D
alluvium - E
loess - F

D ▼
.

B ▼
.

F ▼
.
 A ▼
.

E ▼

C ▼
.

4 True or False, An accumulation of surface sediment formed between a subducting

oceanic crustal plate and a continental tectonic plate, as it is scraped from off the top of
the oceanic crustal plate is called an accretionary wedge.
 TRUE
FALSE

5 Characteristics of glacial till are?

mixture
clay
sand
pebbles
boulders
trench

6 True or False, The formation of sedimentary rock is called lithogenesis.

TRUE
FALSE

7 Fine-grained, silt-size sediment formed by the mechanical erosion of bedrock at the base
and sides of a glacier by moving ice is called?

Rock flour ▼

8 Yes or No, Sediments can occur before sedimentary rocks are made.

Yes
No

9 Yes or No, Metamorphic rocks can occur before sediments are made.

Yes
No

10 Yes or No, Volcanic rocks can occur before sediments are made.

Yes
No

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 Hypotheses

1. When the Earth began to form it was an agglomeration of sediments.

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