Fection: 10-Rizal Date: 28/22/24 Oreo Cookies and Plate Tectonics Score: on the Earth's surface. The term tectonics originates from the Greek word "tekton," referring to a ge features on Earth's surface, such as continents, ocean basins, and mountain ranges, result arth's outer shell. This outer shell is called the lithosphere from the Greek "lithos," meaning hard most mantle, ride on a warmer, softer layer of the mantle, called the asthenosphere. In our phere, the creamy filling the asthenosphere, and the lower cookie the mesosphere. Label the ere 2 3 Plates move in three basic ways. Let's look at them one by one. Choose a cookie. Don't eat it...yet! First, carefully remove the upper cookie (a "twisting" motion is required). Sphere Slide the upper cookie over the creamy filling. This motion simulates the movement of a rigid plate over the softer Next, break the upper cookie in half. As you do so, listen to the sound it makes. What does that breaking represent? towards each other. Now slide the two pieces apart and gently push down on both. nd to flow upward. When two plates move apart at a divergent boundary, the magma eates a True or False. Divergent boundaries cause lots of usato Imeans each other. What happens to the filling as the plates slide together? her? extends to great depths, and deep earthquakes occur. The very largest

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Fection: 10-Rizal
Date: 28/22/24
Oreo Cookies and Plate Tectonics
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on the Earth's surface. The term tectonics originates from the Greek word "tekton," referring to a
ge features on Earth's surface, such as continents, ocean basins, and mountain ranges, result
arth's outer shell. This outer shell is called the lithosphere from the Greek "lithos," meaning hard
most mantle, ride on a warmer, softer layer of the mantle, called the asthenosphere. In our
phere, the creamy filling the asthenosphere, and the lower cookie the mesosphere. Label the
ere
2
3
Plates move in three basic ways. Let's look at them one by one.
Choose a cookie. Don't eat it...yet! First, carefully remove the upper cookie (a
"twisting" motion is required).
Sphere Slide the upper cookie over the creamy filling. This motion simulates the movement of
a rigid
plate over the softer
Next,
break the upper cookie in half. As you do so, listen to the sound it makes. What does
that breaking represent?
towards each other. Now slide the two pieces apart and gently push down on both.
nd to flow upward. When two plates move apart at a divergent boundary, the magma
eates a
True or False. Divergent boundaries cause lots of usato
Imeans
each other. What happens to the filling as the plates slide together?
her?
extends to great depths, and deep earthquakes occur. The very largest
Transcribed Image Text:Fection: 10-Rizal Date: 28/22/24 Oreo Cookies and Plate Tectonics Score: on the Earth's surface. The term tectonics originates from the Greek word "tekton," referring to a ge features on Earth's surface, such as continents, ocean basins, and mountain ranges, result arth's outer shell. This outer shell is called the lithosphere from the Greek "lithos," meaning hard most mantle, ride on a warmer, softer layer of the mantle, called the asthenosphere. In our phere, the creamy filling the asthenosphere, and the lower cookie the mesosphere. Label the ere 2 3 Plates move in three basic ways. Let's look at them one by one. Choose a cookie. Don't eat it...yet! First, carefully remove the upper cookie (a "twisting" motion is required). Sphere Slide the upper cookie over the creamy filling. This motion simulates the movement of a rigid plate over the softer Next, break the upper cookie in half. As you do so, listen to the sound it makes. What does that breaking represent? towards each other. Now slide the two pieces apart and gently push down on both. nd to flow upward. When two plates move apart at a divergent boundary, the magma eates a True or False. Divergent boundaries cause lots of usato Imeans each other. What happens to the filling as the plates slide together? her? extends to great depths, and deep earthquakes occur. The very largest
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