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Graham Cracker Drift
By Michael Jones
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Use your observations from yesterday to help you answer the questions
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We used three things yesterday to build and use a model of how the continents move. Here is what each piece of the model represented.
Graham cracker: Thick crust
Fruit Roll-up: Thinner crust
Frosting: The top of the mantle
Look at your observations for Part 1 to answer the next few questions.
Question 1
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Were the continents getting closer together or farther apart?
Closer
Farther
Question 2
2.
As the continents move apart something forms between them, what do you think that is?
A hole to the center of the earth
A place where the mantle comes all the way to the top of the ground
An ocean
Nothing
Use your observations from Part 2 to answer these questions.
Question 3
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As you moved the pieces closer together one of the crumpled up. Which kind of crust crumpled?
Thick crust
Thin crust
The mantle
The frosting
Question 4
4.
In real life the thinner crust also gets pushed under the thick crust and down into the mantle. What do you think happens to it?
Nothing
It makes mountains
It gets bigger
It is destroyed because it melts
Question 5
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Before the two pieces of crust collided there was an ocean between them. What do you think happened to the ocean?
It got bigger
It stayed the same
It turned into lakes
It got smaller and eventually disappeared
Use your observations from Part 3 to answer these questions
Question 6
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The two pieces of crust crumpled when they collided. Why?
Becasue they were made of the same kind of rocks
Because they were to thick to bend
Because one wasn't able to go under the other one
The mantle wasn't hot enough
Question 7
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When the crust crumpled it formed some land features. Which kind of land feature did they make?
Oceans
Mountains
Valleys
New continents