Sedimentary Rocks

4. Wearing away of soil or rock by water, wind or ice.
6. Parent material has been carried from elsewhere and deposited.
7. The tendency for currents of air or water to separate sediments according to size.
8. Pieces of rocks collide with each other due to transportation by wind, ice, water and gravity.
10. The mechanical or physical breakdown of rock into smaller pieces without a change in the mineral's chemical composition.
14. Occurs when water combines with carbon dioxide in the air to form carbonic acid.
16. Produced by mechanical weathering and are classified by grain size, sorting and angularity.
17. The process of removing empty spaces between minerals by the weight of the overlying sediment.
18. Water freezes in a crack of the rocks surface, expanding and splitting the rock.
19. Occurs when oxygen from the air combines with iron rich minerals of the rock.
20. The process of "glueing" the compacted minerals together by minerals that filter down through the sediment.

1. Soil is formed from the parent material and is of the same composition.
2. Layers of rock peel off the main body of rock.
3. Rocks are formed by the action of organisms as they build shells and other body parts by extracting chemical components from the water in which they live.
5. Mediums transporting a mineral to a different landmass.
9. The process by which chemicals break down rock through a change in the mineral's composition.
11. Water combines with minerals such as mica and feldspar found in granite, to form clay, the rock weakens and crumbles apart.
12. The physical and chemical breakdown of rocks at or near the surface.
13. As a sediment is transported from its source to where it is deposited, the particles collisions cause the particles to change size and shape.
15. Sedimentary rocks are formed when water dissolves minerals and deposits them elsewhere.