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Plate boundaries

model
 You will need 2 sheets of cardboard, modelling clay, 2
different colors
 Procedure
 Get a small piece of clay and roll it into a ball size of a
marble

Plate boundary  Slowly move the sheets away from each other.Watch out
for any changes in the clay.
model Stop the moment you see something.
(Clay)
Analysis
Describe step by step what happens to the clay.
~We observe that when we slowly pulled the two cardboard
we saw that the clay streeched ang instantly torn apart.
Plate Boundery Model
 Take two cardboard sheets and place them on the table
roughly half a centimeter away from each other.
 Get a piece of clay and roll it into a marble size ball.
 Press the clay ball onto the boundary between the two
sheets.
 Slowly move the sheets toward each other.
 What happens to the clay betwenn the teo cardboard
Plate sheets?

Boundary ~ We observed that one part of the cardboard was rising up


and th part was getting under the other cardboard.
Model Analysis
 Describe step by step what happens to the clay.
~Firstly we observed that when we slowly moved the
twosheets towards one of the sheets slowly rises up. Secondly
when we throughly moved the sheets to each other one side
of the sheets had finished rising up.
 In how many ways head-on collision of the plates may
occur?
~There are many ways head on collision had happened in
the demostration.
 What are these ways.
 Placr two cardboard sheets side by side on the table.
 Make clay ball and flatten it along the boundary of the
Plate two sheets.
 Get some clay of anothercolor and make three thin
Boundary strips. Press these on the the surface of the flattened
Model clay.
 Slowly more one of the cardboard sheets toward you,
and the other one away from you.
Analysis
 Describe step by step what happens to the clay

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