Parts of other things

A flake is a small, flat and very thin piece of something. The picture is of a small flake of granite. Some foods, like pastry, break into flakes very easily. They are described as flakey.

Granules are small, rounded pieces of something. They can be made by grinding something down into smaller pieces or more commonly by building them up from clumping much smaller ones together. The granules in the picture are coffee granules.

Something put in a thin coating over something else is a layer. Many different kinds of cakes and sweets have layers of different colors or textures on top of one of the other. A cake might have a layer of sponge, then a layer of chocolate filling, then another layer of sponge and then a layer of frosting around the outside. The cake in the photo has a lot of layers. You can also layer your clothes by wearing clothes over the top of each other to form layers.

A log is a thick cut piece of a tree, either from the main trunk of the tree or a thick branch. Logs cut for lumber tend to be much longer than logs cut for firewood.

A page is a piece of paper which has writing or images print on it. Books are made of pages that are bound together.