peanut butter boundary lines

we created an example of what different plate tectonics may look like. we used graham crackers and peanut butter in order to show plate action.

Plate actions—can come together, go apart, or slide past each other

Boundaries—convergent, divergent, transform fault

Where the mountains are tell us what direction the continent is moving ie: rocky mountains on west mean we are moving west, south American Andes on east means they are moving east, Himalayan in India show movement as well

              Continental interaction

Graham cracker activity: showing how the mountains show movement through pushing them down into peanut butter.

1)      Transform fault

a.      

2)      Divergent boundary

a.       Frosting doll-up and put in center of wax paper—put the two pieces of cracker back together and slide down then pushed out

b.     

 

3)      Convergent

a.       Like the rug bunching up when shoved against the wall. 

image found at http://interactivesciencenotebook.weebly.com/convergent-boundary.html

with this lab we were able to physically form the ranges.