1. Sedimentary Rocks
Forms when particles of rocks, plants, or animals are cemented together.

2. Weathering
Running water or wind breaks rocks or organic material into sediments (pieces of rocks, plants, animals).

3. Running water or wind carries away sediments.
Erosion
Running water or wind carries away sediments.

4. Sediment drops out of water or wind.
Deposition
Sediment drops out of water or wind.

5. Pressing of sediment together. (make-up compact)
Compaction
Pressing of sediment together. (make-up compact)

6. Dissolved minerals crystallize and glue sediments together.
Cementation
Dissolved minerals crystallize and glue sediments together.

7. Sediments squeezed together to form a rock.
Clastic Rock
Sediments squeezed together to form a rock.
A type of sedimentary rock (such as shale, siltstone, sandstone, or conglomerate) or sediment (such as mud, silt, sand, or pebbles). Clastic rocks are accumulations of transported weathering debris that have been transformed into stone.

8. Rock with remains of plants and animals forming layers.
Organic Rock
Rock with remains of plants and animals forming layers.

9. Minerals dissolved in a solution crystallize.
Chemical Rock
Minerals dissolved in a solution crystallize.

10. Breccia (ˈbreCHēə)
a rock composed of sharp fragments embedded in a fine-grained matrix (as sand or clay)

11. Conglomerate
rock composed of rounded fragments varying from small pebbles to large boulders in a cement (as of hardened clay)