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    E S N: P Et: P T P: D:: Arth Cience AME H Late Ectonics ER ATE

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    The document provides instructions for exploring a PhET simulation on plate tectonics. It includes 15 multiple choice and short answer questions about various features of the simulation, including the variables that can be adjusted in the crust settings, how continental and oceanic crust differ, observations about convergent, divergent and transform boundaries, and factors such as which crust subducts, where volcanoes form, and relative plate motions.

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    E S N: P Et: P T P: D:: Arth Cience AME H Late Ectonics ER ATE

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    The document provides instructions for exploring a PhET simulation on plate tectonics. It includes 15 multiple choice and short answer questions about various features of the simulation, including the variables that can be adjusted in the crust settings, how continental and oceanic crust differ, observations about convergent, divergent and transform boundaries, and factors such as which crust subducts, where volcanoes form, and relative plate motions.

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    The document provides instructions for exploring a PhET simulation on plate tectonics. It includes 15 multiple choice and short answer questions about various features of the simulation, including the variables that can be adjusted in the crust settings, how continental and oceanic crust differ, observations about convergent, divergent and transform boundaries, and factors such as which crust subducts, where volcanoes form, and relative plate motions.

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    E S N: P Et: P T P: D:: Arth Cience AME H Late Ectonics ER ATE

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    EARTH SCIENCE NAME:

    PHET: PLATE TECTONICS PER: DATE:

    Go to the PhET website


    Select the Plate Tectonics Simulation
    Spend a few minutes exploring the simulation. Don’t worry, you can’t break it.
    Select the “Crust” tab at the top of the simulation. Under view select “Both”.
    Q2 – Continental Crust
    1) What are the 3 variables that can be changed in this simulation? (Scale or
    zoom is a nice feature, but not a variable.)

    2) Try to duplicate the continental crust as accurately as possible. Show on the


    diagram where you set each variable. (In other words, draw where you must
    move the slides.)
    3) Try to duplicate the oceanic crust as accurately as possible. Show on the
    diagram where you set each variable. Q3 – Oceanic Crust

    4) In terms of the three variables you have investigated, describe how


    continental crust differs from oceanic crust.
    ____________________________________________________________
    ____________________________________________________________
    ____________________________________________________________
    Select the “Plate Motion” tab at the top of the screen. Under view select
    “Both”.
    8) Investigate convergent boundaries (green arrows). Report your findings in the following table:
    Left Side Right Side Which Crust Which Crust Do non- Does a On Which
    Crust Crust is Denser? Subducts? volcanic Trench Crust Do
    Mountains Form? Volcanoes
    Form? Form?
    Continental Continental

    Continental Old
    Ocean
    Old Continental
    Ocean
    Continental Young
    Ocean
    Young Continental
    Ocean
    Old Young
    Ocean Ocean
    Young Old
    Ocean Ocean
    9) Describe the relative motion of the plates at ALL convergent plate boundaries.
    ____________________
    ____________________________________________________________________________________

    10) Three times you used the same two types of crust, but switched left and right sides. What do you
    observe about the results? Is the side the crust is placed on important?
    ____________________________________________________________________________________
    ____________________________________________________________________________________

    11) Look for patterns in density, subduction, and volcanoes in the table. When volcanoes form, on
    which plate do they always form? ________________________________________________________
    ____________________________________________________________________________________

    12) Explore how a continental-young oceanic crust collision differs from a continental-old oceanic crust
    collision.
    Describe the difference in the angle of subduction between old and new plates.
    ______________________________________________________________________________
    ______________________________________________________________________________
    How does the distance between the volcanoes and the plate boundary differ between old and new
    plates? ________________________________________________________________________
    ______________________________________________________________________________

    13) Investigate divergent boundaries (red arrows). Click show labels. Describe the relative motion of
    ALL plates at divergent boundaries. ______________________________________________________
    ____________________________________________________________________________________

    14) What is generated at ALL divergent plate boundaries? ____________________________________


    ____________________________________________________________________________________

    15) Investigate transform fault boundaries (blue arrows). Describe the relative motion of ALL plates at
    transform fault boundaries.______________________________________________________________
    ____________________________________________________________________________________

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