Rocks and Minerals

• natural resources-things people use from earth (air, wind, water, rock, minerals, animals, plants)

 

• rock-nonliving hard part of earth.  different sizes, shapes, colors, etc...
• rocks have been used as tools (arrow) and to build walls and buildings

 

• minerals-hard, nonliving parts of soil that can make rocks sparkle or shine (graphite in pencils, flourite in toothpaste, magnetite in magnets)

 

• rocks and minerals take millions of years to form in the ground
• people dig in the ground for rocks and minerals
• rocks can be made of one or more minerals