Introduction to Lyme Regis beach video
Visit Lyme Regis beach in Dorset with Maia and Keiran as they ask questions about rocks and fossils.
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Topics:
Living things and their habitats, Rocks, Evolution and inheritance, Human and physical geography
Take a close-up look at rock grains, crystals and layers and investigate the porosity of sandstone and granite by placing them in water. The video also poses the question ‘ How can we tell which rock is the hardest?
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