Children's Nonfiction Rocks & Minerals
What Is the Rock Cycle?
- Publisher
- Crabtree Publishing Company
- Initial publish date
- Aug 2010
- Category
- Rocks & Minerals, General, General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780778772361
- Publish Date
- Aug 2010
- List Price
- $9.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780778772316
- Publish Date
- Aug 2010
- List Price
- $25.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781427195258
- Publish Date
- Dec 2010
- List Price
- $25.95
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Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
- Age: 9
- Grade: 4
Description
What is the Rock Cycle describes the natural transformation of one type of rock into others. Beginning with igneous rocks made in volcanic eruptions, rock is weathered and eroded gradually to form a sediment. This sediment is then deposited and pressed into layers making sedimentary rocks. These in turn are transformed by heat and pressure into metamorphic rocks. Heat makes these melt into magma which, together with molten rock from the core of the Earth, make new igneous rocks.
About the author
Natalie Hyde writes fiction and non-fiction for middle-grade and young adult readers. Her fiction titles include Mine!, Saving Armpit, I Owe You One and Hockey Girl. She is also the author of over forty educational non-fiction books, as well as trade non-fiction titles: Cryptic Canada, Glow-in-the-Dark Creatures and Stay Strong: A Musician’s Journey from Congo to Canada. Her books have garnered award nominations in both Canada and the U.S. She lives in Flamborough, Ontario, with her family.
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