Minerals have many different properties. These properties are used to classify minerals and to help in knowing how minerals can be used. Some of the properties of minerals include hardness, color, shi ...
Earth is estimated to be 4.6 billion years old and ever-changing. Scientists have organized Earth’s history into geologic time periods. These time periods include the Precambrian, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, ...
Water has power! It has the power to shape the surface of the Earth. Water can change one landform by washing away sediment and then depositing it somewhere else to create a new landform. How are new ...
Despite what early explorers thought, the world is definitely not flat!This includes land masses and the ocean floor.Just as there are mountains, valleys, and plains on dry land, the ocean floor is co ...
Rocks are ever changing.They can be smoothed by water, broken off by wind, and cracked by ice.If you found a rock in your backyard then traveled back in time 1,000 years, that rock would look totally ...
Rocks are not only changed by water, wind, and ice but can also be changed by chemicals. Chemical weathering is the process by which the actual minerals that rocks are made of are changed. Chemical we ...
There are three types of rocks-igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary. Each rock is formed through different processes and made up of varying. Igneous rocks are formed through the cooling of melted whi ...