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Award-winning science writer Seymour Simon explains to readers the different types of rocks and minerals with fascinating facts and stunning full-color photographs. Readers will learn how to identify and classify various kinds of stones, such as granite, sandstone, basalt, quartz, and crystal.
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The Hands on Science series provides students with background on key concepts in Science. Each title includes engaging hands on exercises that bring the concepts to life for kids. Real World Science: Rocks and Minerals, provide background on rocks and minerals, what they are and how they form, how rocks change, and the uses of rocks and minerals.
10) Rocks & minerals
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An introduction to rocks and minerals, their types, origins, and uses.
17) Rocks & minerals
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Practically everything we do or use in our daily lives depends on materials we take from the ground. The history of our exploration of the world has often centered on obtaining strategic mineral resources. For example, the lust for gold funded much of the exploration and conquest of the Americas by Europeans. Look around you now and see all the things that are made out of rocks and minerals. The paper of this book, though mostly plant fiber, has probably...
19) Rocks & minerals
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"Unearth a treasure trove of geological knowledge with this in-depth guide to over 500 rocks and minerals"--
20) I am a rock
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First-person riddles present information about various rocks and minerals, including sandstone, chalk, slate, and petrified wood.
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