Earth's Natural resources (ROCKS)

• Natural Resources

  • materials that can be used to support life and provide energy for living things to live and survive as well for machines to run or operate
• Lithosphere

  • rigid outer layer of the earth
  • composed of rocks
• Sedimentary rocks

  • rocks from compaction of sediment plastic
  • from compaction of rock fragments
• Metamorphic rocks

  • have been changes by heat pressure, fluids and la stain
  • start out as different type of rock
• Igneous rocks

  • Occurs when there is a cooling of solidification of magma or lava

  Intrusive - from magma

  Extrusive - from lava