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Earth Science: Rocks and Minerals

Fossil Fuels and Oil - Fossil fuels come from a lot more than just dead dinosaurs. This site has plenty of links to sites about coal, oil, and formation of other fossil fuels.

Kinetic City Time Warper - earth changing erosion activity

40 Common Minerals - An A-to-Z list of minerals with descriptions and links to details on each .

Interactives - Rock Cycle Activities from Learner.org. Create a rock collection as you learn about the three main types of rock, find out how to tell the different rock types apart, and see how rocks change from one type into another!

Rock Hounds with Rocky - Get your hard hats on and go digging for some fun and facts on this K-6 activity. Teachers will find literature connections, ideas for Internet collaborations, and science activities to help students explore how sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous rocks are made. Short, easy to understand text segments are accompanied by illustrations.

Windows to the Universe Geology - includes pages about minerals, rocks and the rock cycle, Earth's layers and moving plates, fossils and more.

The Stupid Page of Rocks is not stupid at all. It includes FORMATION, PROPERTIES and PROFILES of each kind of rock, along with photos.

Rock, Mineral and Fossil Reference - Lots of links about rocks, hardness, classification, and more, but BE SURE to check out the drop-down menu at the top of the page (the Geo Picture Gallery) where you can scroll to select from 100 photos of rocks, minerals and fossils.

The Rock Cycle, and other information

Kids Click! , Links to rock web sites and Gems web sites