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Chapter 14: Sediments in the Sea (Ocean Sediments)
1. List and describe techniques scientists use to study ocean sediments.
2. How do scientists use ocean sediments to study the past?
3. How are sediments classified by origin?
4. What are the characteristics and relative abundance of sediments based on their
classification by origins?
5. How are sediments classified by size?
6. How do sediment grain size and current velocity affect the erosion and deposition of
sediment?
7. What processes affect sedimentation on the continental shelf?
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Chapter 14
MARINE SCIENCE
WS
NAME: _________________________________
Period: ________
8. What is the carbonate compensation depth?
9. Why do siliceous deposits dominate sediments below the calcium carbonate
compensation depth?
10. Why does deep-ocean sediment tend to have the same particle composition as the surface
water above it?
11. How do scientists think ferromanganese and phosphorite nodules form?
12. How does the study of ocean sediments relate to the economic importance of sediments?
13. What are recent and relict sediments?
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