Topics include:

 

 

Earth's Crust Vocab Pre-Test

Rock & Minerals Video

Mineral Samples

Birthstones

Earth: A Layered Planet

Tsunami Videos

Sugar / Salt Crystals

Earth's Layers Drawing

Parts of Our Earth Booklet

Minerals - Mining & Processing

What is The Earth's Crust Made Of? Booklet

Erosion & Weathering

Soil & Its Components

Soil & Plant Growth

Sedimentary Rock

Virtual Labs

Drifting Continents & Moving Plates Click on Tools -> Virtual Experiments

Mountains From Rocks

Beautiful Mountain Photos

Igneous & Metamorphic Rocks

Volcanoes - Making Mountains from Magma

Krakatoa - 1883 Eruption Facts

 

  Pressurized magma forcing its way through the crust. Lava forms the cone-shaped mountain.

 

 

 

 

 

Earth's Crust Vocabulary

bedrock	continental drift	core	crust	deposit
erode	fault	igneous	metamorphic	sedimentary
lava	mantle	magma	minerals	plate tectonics
volcano	weathering	sediment	soil	geothermal

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Diamond.

 

 Salt crystals.

 

 Sugar crystals.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Mica.

 

 

 

Calcite mineral: Perfect rhombohedronal cleavage (weakness).

 

 

  

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