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ROCKSROCKSRELATED TITLES & PRODUCTS

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ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

What's Inside:
  • The Rock Cycle
  • Earth, a Planet of Rock
  • Rocks for Tools and Tombs
  • Gemstones
  • Stonehenge
  • Fossils: Bones of Stone
  • Meteors and Moon Rocks
  • Ayer's and Other Famous Rocks
Features:
  • DIAGRAMS
  • CHARTS / GRAPHS
  • MAPS
  • LEXILE® READING LEVEL: 970L
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Sample Text
"Rocks are famous for staying put. If something is as "solid as a rock," you assume that it's not going to change or go anywhere. However, in reality, rocks are always changing and on the move. Nature's constant recycling of them can be seen in mountains, rivers, oceans, volcanoes, canyons, and earthquakes. Rocks come in about one hundred varieties. There are also approximately 3,500 minerals. . . "
RELATED TITLES & PRODUCTS
EARTHQUAKESEARTHQUAKES
"Anchorage, Alaska, March 27, 1964: Eight-year-old Anne Thomas was watching TV with her six-year-old brother, David, and their mother when they heard a strange rumbling from outside. The house trembled. The family ran out the door. The ground shook violently. There was an incredible roaring. The Thomases slid down into a chasm in the earth. Then there was silence, and stillness. "I felt like we we. . . "
EARTHEARTH
"Spread out a map of the world. What you see on its depends on the kind of map you have. Does it show cities and countries? Mountains and valleys? Maybe weather patterns? The variety of features is so great that one map just can't handle it all. Earth is part of a nine-planet solar system within the Milky Way galaxy. Its size and location aren't very impressive. We inhabit the third planet. . . "
VOLCANOESVOLCANOES
"Volcanoes are like sleeping giants. After years, even centuries, of rest, they awake. They erupt. Some powerful eruptions blow tops off mountains, flatten forests, and dam up rivers. Some eruptions have killed tens of thousands of people. A few have buried cities, while others have buried mountains. Some big eruptions have even changed the world's weather for years. Volcanoes also shape the earth.. . . "
MOUNTAINSMOUNTAINS
"Awesome. Majestic. Cool. These words and many more have been used to describe the natural wonder of mountains. For thousands of years, they have inspired stories and poetry, paintings and music, religious devotions, amazing athletic feats, and silent appreciation. Mountains cover nearly one-quarter of Earth's land surface. They are home to some people and a travel destination for others. They are a refuge for plants and animals. They affect weather and climate."
GRAND CANYONGRAND CANYON
"With layers of red, pink, purple, brown, green, gray, and yellow, the rocky walls of the Grand Canyon look like a box of melted crayons. No powerful cranes, noisy drills, or enormous shovels constructed the canyon. Instead, it was created by the mighty Colorado River. Of course, it had some helpers: small streams and tributaries, wind, rain, snow, and ice, as well as Earth's shifting tectonic plates."
VALUE-PACKED SETS
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
CHILDREN'S BOOKS
  • Coal (Rocks, Minerals and Resources) (Rocks, Minerals, and Resources). By Ron Edwards, Rebound by Sagebrush, 2004.
  • Minerals (Rocks, Minerals, and Resources). By Jenna Dunlop, Crabtree Publishing Company, 2004.
  • All about Rocks & Minerals: An Exploration of Gems, Crystals, Fossils and Rocks. By Jack Challoner, Southwater Publishing, 2002.
  • Rocks & Minerals (Eyewitness Books). By R. F. Symes, DK Publishing Inc., 2004.
ADULT BOOKS
  • Rocks & Minerals (DK Pockets). By Sue Fuller, Dorling Kindersley Publishing, 2003.
  • Nature Activity Rock & Fossil Hunter. By Dk Publishing, DK Publishing Inc, 2005.
  • Sedimentary Rocks (Stewart, Melissa. Rocks and Minerals.). By Melissa Stewart, Heinemann Library, 2002.
  • Rocks & Minerals (Troll Discovery Kit). By Mary Packard, Troll Communications, 2002.
WEBSITES
  • U.S. Geological Survey: www.usgs.gov
COMMUNITY RESOURCES
  • Deptartment of Mineral Sciences- National Museum of Natural History (DC): http://abbot.si.edu/minsci/collect.htm