Question

Select the term(s) that are part of the processes responsible for moving the materials that form the layers needed to make most sedimentary rocks.


layering


weathering


precipitation


erosion


deposition

Answer 1

Weathering, erosion, and deposition.

- Weathering breaks down rock into sediment.
- Erosion transports that sediment.
- Deposition lays the transported sediment down in layers.

(Precipitation forms chemical sediments but doesn't move them; layering is the result, not a transport process.)