Modeling Plate Spreading

Description: This experiment demonstrates how temperature affects water movement through convection currents using food coloring. By comparing the results, they’ll gain a visual understanding of how heat influences fluid dynamics and it can be applied to plate tectonics.
Created by: Mike Williams
Subject: HS: Earth and Space Sciences
Subtopic: History of Earth
Standard: HS-ESS1-5: Evidence of Plate Tectonics
Resource: Laboratory / Inquiry
Shared: 01/01/2025
Format: File
For non-commercial educational use under a: Creative Commons License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

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