Unit 4:
Minerals and rocks
2. Minerals
2.1. Classification of minerals
3. Rocks
3.1. Magmatic rocks
3.2. Metamorphic rocks
3.3. Sedimentary rocks
3.4. The rock cycle
BEFORE
STARTING...
Think and answer
a. What is a rock?
What is it composed by?
b. Could you put an example
of a rock and other of a mineral?
c. How are rocks classified?
What
criteria do we use to do it?
d. What are minerals and rocks
used for?
TO KNOW MORE...
Los minerales y las rocas (Libros vivos SM)
Los minerales y las rocas (CIDEAD)
Los materiales de la corteza terrestre (Proyecto Biosfera)
Minerales y rocas (E-ducativa)
Minerals (Oxford University Musseum of Natural History)
Rocks (Oxford University Musseum of Natural History)
Fossils (Oxford University Musseum of Natural History)
Rock cycle (Hartcourtschool)
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