ACTIVITY SHEET

Push me up and aside!

(Adapted)

Objectives:
 Explain what causes the tectonic plates to move.
 Enumerate the factors that cause tectonic plates to move.
 Realize the importance of the creation of convection current underneath the earth.

Materials:
 dropper
 food color
 beaker
 water
 light wood blocks
 alcohol burner & tripod

Procedure:
1. Pour water into the beaker.

2. Place the beaker on a tripod assembly.

Warning: Make sure that you know how to use alcohol burner.

3. Add few drops of food coloring to the water in the beaker.

4. Looking from the side of the beaker, observe what happens in the water.

Q1. How does the food coloring behave?

Q2. What do you call this behaviour?

Q3. Enumerate the factors that cause the formation of a current?

5. Put several light wood blocks in the center of the heated near to boiling water.

Q4. What happens to the blocks? What does this resemble?

6. Illustrate your observation.