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Drop It Like Its Hot

1) The document describes an experiment using a test tube filled with boiling water, paper, and an alcohol lamp to simulate plate tectonics and hot spots. 2) As the water boils, the heat causes discoloration patterns to form on the paper where it is in contact with the test tube. 3) Moving the paper simulates the movement of tectonic plates over geological time and demonstrates how different geological features form at different time periods from volcanic hot spots.

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Drop It Like Its Hot

1) The document describes an experiment using a test tube filled with boiling water, paper, and an alcohol lamp to simulate plate tectonics and hot spots. 2) As the water boils, the heat causes discoloration patterns to form on the paper where it is in contact with the test tube. 3) Moving the paper simulates the movement of tectonic plates over geological time and demonstrates how different geological features form at different time periods from volcanic hot spots.

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Activity 6

Drop It Like It's "Hot Spot"

Objective: Relate hot spot with plate tectonics

Materials:

1. alcohol lamp
2. test tube
3. bond paper (2 sheets) • match
4. test tube holder
5. water

Procedures:

1. Attach one end of the bond paper to the end of another bond paper.
2. Fill 3/4 of the test tube with water and heat it over an alcohol lamp.
3. While waiting for the water to boil, place the paper on top of the test tube. Be sure that the
two are in contact.

4. Once the water starts boiling and fumes are coming out, hold the paper in the same
position for the next 10 seconds.
5. After 10 seconds, move the bond paper very slowly and horizontally by 10 centimeters.
See to it that the paper and test tube are still in contact. Repeat step 5 after another 10
seconds and observe.

Q36. What can you see on the surface of the bond paper
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Q37. Let's say that the paper represents the Earth's crust; what do you think is represented by
the water in the test tube?

Q38. What geologic feature do you think will be formed at the surface of the crust?
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Q39. Which of the features, at the surface of the crust, will be the oldest? the youngest? Label
these on your paper.

Q40. Which of the features will be the most active? The least active? Label these on your paper.
Activity 6 gave you an idea how tectonic activities could also happen

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