===== Material Resources =====


The Earth provides a wide variety of natural resources.  Science and technology has taken the resources nature offers and transformed them into something that serves a particular function better than its original form allowed.

In this unit of study we look at:
  * [[Form and Function]]
  * [[Rocks and Metals]]
  * [[Trees and Paper]]
  * [[Oil and Plastic]]
  * [[Waste Management]]

Interactive Sandbox
  *[[http://scienceoftech.net/dev/mat/Oxidation.html|Oxidation]]
  *[[http://scienceoftech.net/dev/mat/Roasting.html|Roasting]]
  *[[http://scienceoftech.net/dev/mat/Smelting.html|Smelting]]
  *[[http://scienceoftech.net/dev/mat/ThermalDecomposition.html| Thermal Decomposition]]
  *[[http://scienceoftech.net/dev/mat/metal-smelting.html| Metal Smelting]]