Find out all about the science in the world around us with Moving Up with Science. Written to support the National Curriculum at Key Stage 2, each title explores key scientific topics through a combination of concise information and fun experiments.

Moving Up with Science: Rocks and Soil looks at Earth and the rocks that make it up, from its fiery core and volcanoes to limestone cliffs and fossils. It also explores how rocks form and reform over time, and how they change the world around us.

This book is part of a book series called Moving Up With Science .

This book is suitable for Key Stage 2. KS2 covers school years 4, 5 and 6, and ages 8-11 years. A key stage is any of the fixed stages into which the national curriculum is divided, each having its own prescribed course of study. At the end of each stage, pupils are required to complete standard assessment tasks. This book is aimed at children in primary school.

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2016 by Hachette Children's Group .

Peter D. Riley is a full-time author and has written over 200 books for primary and secondary Science.

This book has the following chapters:

• 1: Rocks in space
• 2: Inside the Earth
• 3: Volcanoes
• 4: Igneous rocks
• 5: When rocks break up
• 6: Sedimentary rocks
• 7: Rocks from living things
• 8: Minerals
• 9: Metamorphic rocks
• 10: Soil
• 11: Investigating soil
• 12: How fossils form
• 13: Fossils from different ages
• 14: Glossary
• 15: Answers
• 16: Index