This book is packed with stunning colour photographs and diagrams. Together with a detailed and expertly written text, it provides an accurate, comprehensive account of the topic of the Earth's Resources for key stage 3 students. Main text is supported by a series of fact files which provide information at a glance: history file, future file, test and fact files. Topics covered include: * What are resources? * Mining and quarrying * Stone, cement and concrete * Industrial metals and precious metals * Jewels, gems and crystals * Oil, gas and coal * Renewable energy sources * Wood and other bio-resources * How long will the Earth's resources last?

 

This book is part of a book series called Science Fact Files .

This book is suitable for Key Stage 3. KS3 covers school years 7, 8 and 9, and ages 12-14 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.

There are 48 pages in this book. This book was published 2001 by Hachette Children's Group .

Steve Parker is an experienced non-fiction children's writer who also wrote the Look at Your Body series.