Guide Questions: 1. How do the plates move? (Choices: towards each other; grind past each other; away from each other) А. 2. Which illustration is described in the following statements? 2.a. A plate is riding over the other. 2.b. Plates are drifting apart. 2.c. Rock layers in plates are neither stretched nor compressed. 3. The lowest part in the illustrations represents asthenosphere. Observe illustration A. Where does the magma go when the plates begin to move apart? 4. The darker upper part of the illustrations represents the plates. Observe illustration B. What do you think would happen to the part of the plate that В. C. sinks? 5. The surface part of the illustrations represents the surface of the crust. Observe illustration C. What would be the effect of this gliding of plates, especially the sudden jerks due to long period without movement on the ground?

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Guide Questions:
1. How do the plates move? (Choices: towards each other; grind past each
other; away from each other)
А.
2. Which illustration is described in the following statements?
2.a. A plate is riding over the other.
2.b. Plates are drifting apart.
2.c. Rock layers in plates are neither stretched nor compressed.
3. The lowest part in the illustrations represents asthenosphere. Observe
illustration A. Where does the magma go when the plates begin to move
apart?
4. The darker upper part of the illustrations represents the plates. Observe
illustration B. What do you think would happen to the part of the plate that
В.
С.
sinks?
5. The surface part of the illustrations represents the surface of the crust.
Observe illustration C. What would be the effect of this gliding of plates,
especially the sudden jerks due to long period without movement on the
ground?
LO
Transcribed Image Text:А B 4 Guide Questions: 1. How do the plates move? (Choices: towards each other; grind past each other; away from each other) А. 2. Which illustration is described in the following statements? 2.a. A plate is riding over the other. 2.b. Plates are drifting apart. 2.c. Rock layers in plates are neither stretched nor compressed. 3. The lowest part in the illustrations represents asthenosphere. Observe illustration A. Where does the magma go when the plates begin to move apart? 4. The darker upper part of the illustrations represents the plates. Observe illustration B. What do you think would happen to the part of the plate that В. С. sinks? 5. The surface part of the illustrations represents the surface of the crust. Observe illustration C. What would be the effect of this gliding of plates, especially the sudden jerks due to long period without movement on the ground? LO
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