Types of formations -- Introduction: rocks are everywhere -- Powerful tectonic plates -- Minerals and crystals -- Igneous rocks -- Sedimentary rocks -- Metamorphic rocks -- Become a rock hound!.
Summary:
Everyone knows what a rock is, but do you know what a rock is made of? And how it was made? And what it’s good for? Rocks and Minerals! With 25 Science Projects for Kids invites kids ages 7 to 10 on a tour of the fascinating world of the geological forces that create and transform rocks, including the life cycle of igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks and what they can tell us about the earth. Rocks and Minerals! also explores fossils, and how they come to exist and are discovered.
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