Rocks And Minerals (Revised Edition)

Duration: 17

Year Published: 1978

Creator: BAILEY FILM ASSOCIATES

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Description: Demonstrations that students can repeat coupled with live macroand microphotography help students learn how rocks are formed, what shapes the rocks take, how the form of the rock helps us to understand its history, and how minerals form rocks., Identifies various rocks and minerals, suggests ways rocks may be classified, and discusses the three basic rock types. Explains that rocks may be classified by texture, by hardness or color, by the way they were formed, or by the materials they contain. Illustrates the formation of igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rock. Includes demonstrations of crystal growing and rock tumbling to explain rock and mineral formation.

Complete Record: Demonstrations that students can repeat coupled with live macroand microphotography help students learn how rocks are formed, what shapes the rocks take, how the form of the rock helps us to understand its history, and how minerals form rocks., Identifies various rocks and minerals, suggests ways rocks may be classified, and discusses the three basic rock types. Explains that rocks may be classified by texture, by hardness or color, by the way they were formed, or by the materials they contain. Illustrates the formation of igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rock. Includes demonstrations of crystal growing and rock tumbling to explain rock and mineral formation.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.