This book covers a range of topics from the geography and science schemes of work at key stage 2 and 3. The book focuses on the how different rock types are formed and how they are acted upon by weathering and erosion. The book also looks at how rocks provide a habitat for plants and animals and considers the consequences of human activity, such as quarrying and tourism. Throughout the book, focus panels look in detail at aspects of the rock cycle and investigative panels encourage further research.
This is Book 4 in the Nature Cycles Series. See all Nature Cycles books here.
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Sally Morgan is a freelance author of children's science and environmental books and CD-ROMs with over 30 books to her name by a number of publishers, including Future Tech: Energy and the new Looking at Minibeasts series published by Belitha Press. Sally is a former science teacher and has a degree in Biological Science from Cambridge University. She lives
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