G-9 FERNANDEZ, SHANE H.

10-EQUITY

Activity 2: Push Me Up and Aside! (30 points)

 

Follow – up Questions:

1. How does the food coloring behave? (5 pts)

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2. Which way does the water move over the heat source? What
happens to the water when it reaches the surface? (3 pts)

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3. What do you call this behavior? (2 pts)

Convection Current

4. Enumerate the factors that cause the formation of a current.

(5 pts)

The factors that cause the formation of current is the rising and
the sinking the dense particles of heated water. The less dense
particle rises while denser particles sink. When the hot less
dense particles cool down and the other less dense particles rise
convection current takes place. The plates are dragged by the
current as they moved along making the plates push, slide and
drift away from each other as the movement continues.

REFLECT AND CONCLUDE!

How do tectonic plates move, and what are the consequences of

these movements? (5 pts)
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