Based on diameter, what answer choice best describes the largest sediment? (from Lecture & Notes: Intro to Sediments)

What answer choice best describes the sediment with the diameter of rock recorded at 64 to 256 mm? (from Lecture & Notes: Intro to Sediments)

According to the Krumbein Phi Scale, what answer choice best describes a sediment with the diameter of 4 to 64 mm? (from Lecture & Notes: Intro to Sediments)

What answer choice best describes a rock texture resulting from the aggregation of mineral grains of 2 to 4 mm in diameter? (from Lecture & Notes: Intro to Sediments)

What answer choice best describes a sediment derived from land and transported to the ocean by wind and flowing water? (from Lecture & Notes: Intro to Sediments)

What answer choice best describes a sediment of biological origin? (from Lecture & Notes: Intro to Sediments)

What answer choice best describes a sediment formed directly by precipitation (and is also called an authigenic sediment)? (from Lecture & Notes: Intro to Sediments)

What answer choice best describes a sediment of extraterrestrial origin? (from Lecture & Notes: Intro to Sediments)

What answer choice best describes a sediment that is distributed on the slope, rise, and deep ocean floor? (from Lecture & Notes: Intro to Sediments)

In the distribution of average thickness of sediments, what answer choice best describes the location of the thickest distribution? (from Lecture & Notes: Intro to Sediments)

In the distribution of average thickness of sediments, what answer choice best describes where the least average thickness distribution happens? (from Lecture & Notes: Intro to Sediments)

TRUE or FALSE? The conversion of lava into sedimentary rock by pressure or by the introduction of a mineral cement is called Lithification. (from Lecture & Notes: Intro to Sediments)

TRUE or FALSE? Terrigenous sediments deposited by a turbidity current are called Turbidites. (from Lecture & Notes: Intro to Sediments)

TRUE or FALSE? According to our notes, 28% of ocean floor covered by clays and other terrigenous particles. (from Lecture & Notes: Intro to Sediments)

TRUE or FALSE? According to our notes, the ocean floor accumulates 2mm of clay every thousand years. (from Lecture & Notes: Intro to Sediments)

TRUE or FALSE? According to our notes, oozes are sediments of at least 25% of biological origin. (from Lecture & Notes: Intro to Sediments)

What answer choice best describes ooze composed mostly of the hard remains of silica-containing organisms? (from Lecture & Notes: Intro to Sediments)

Identify the Plankton: What answer choice best describes a group of amoeba-like animals with a calcareous shell? (from Lecture & Notes: Intro to Sediments)

Identify the Plankton: What answer choice best describes small planktonic mollusks with calcareous shells? (from Lecture & Notes: Intro to Sediments)

Identify the Plankton: What answer choice best describes very small planktonic alga carrying discs of calcium carbonate? (from Lecture & Notes: Intro to Sediments)

Identify the Plankton: What answer choice best describes Earth's most abundant and successful single-celled plankton possessing two interlocking valves made primarily of silica? (from Lecture & Notes: Intro to Sediments)

What answer choice represents a program initiated in 1968 designed to obtain cores from the deep sea? (from Chapter 4.1)

What answer choice represents a program that was the replacement to an existing program in 1983 and focused on drilling the continent margins? (from Chapter 4.1)

What answer choice represents a program that was the replacement to an existing program in 2003 that has riser technology, which allows for cores to be collected deep within the Earth? (from Chapter 4.1)

What answer choice represents a a drill ship that replaced the Glomar Challenge in 1985 that featured rotary drilling? (from Chapter 4.1)

Which part of the ocean is considered to be the most climatically sensitive regions on Earth? (from Chapter 4.1)

By analyzing cores of sediment collected from the sea floor, scientists can infer past environmental conditions on all of the following except ________. (from Chapter 4.1)

The new drill ship, Chikyu, can drill up to how many feet into the sea floor? (from Chapter 4.1)

Which type of marine sediments include siliceous and calcareous oozes? (from Chapter 4.1)

Which type of marine sediments include space dust and meteors? (from Chapter 4.1)

Volcanic ash is considered to be which type of marine sediment? (from Chapter 4.1)

Ocean sediments consist of particles that have slowly settled out of the water by which of the following the processes? (from Chapter 4.1)

Which of the following statements about marine sediments is correct? (from Chapter 4.1)

Sediment that begins as rocks on continents or islands is called ________. (from Chapter 4.2)

High-energy environments are most likely to deposit which one of the following? (from Chapter 4.2)

Sediments that are poorly sorted were most likely deposited by ________. (from Chapter 4.2)

Abyssal clay is sometimes referred to as ________. (from Chapter 4.2)

Abyssal clay contains ________. (from Chapter 4.2)

According to the Wentworth scale, what is the particle name for a sediment that is 64 to 256 millimeters in size? (from Chapter 4.2)

According to the Wentworth scale, what is the particle name for a sediment that is above 256 millimeters in size? (from Chapter 4.2)

How many years ago was the last ice age? (from Chapter 4.2)

Relic sediments cover about ________ of the world's continental shelves. (from Chapter 4.2)

________ deposits are found on continental shelves and in shallow water near islands, whereas, ________ deposits are found in deep-ocean basins and are fine grained. (from Chapter 4.2)

Sediment texture describes the ________ characteristics of a deposit. (from Chapter 4.2)

One of the most abundance, chemically stable, and durable minerals in the Earth's crust is ________. (from Chapter 4.2)

Approximately how much sediment is carried to the continental margins? (from Chapter 4.2)