Geology
Fossils
Fossils were once living things that died and became trapped in a layer of sediment. As the layers of sediment built up the pressure increased and the dead animal or plant slowly turned into a fossil. Fossils are normally the hard parts of animals...
Minerals
Minerals make up rocks and are chemical compounds with distinctive properties. They often grow as irregular shapes but in good conditions mineral crystals can grow into a specific form. There are lots of different crystal habits (the shape of a mi...
rocks
Rocks are all around us - you can see them in the countryside as cliffs or boulders, in the city as parts of buildings and roads and at the seaside as pebbles. Rocks are made up of minerals; some rocks, like limestone, are made up of only a few ty...
