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Playdough Boundaries Lab

The document describes a lab activity where students build models of the three types of plate boundaries using playdough - convergent boundaries between two oceanic plates, convergent boundaries between continental plates, and convergent boundaries between an oceanic and continental plate. Students also model divergent boundaries between oceanic plates and continental plates, and transform boundaries. They answer questions about the resulting land formations and provide real world examples for each boundary type. The document also asks students to describe how the oceanic crust and tallest points on Earth's crust were formed, and to write a fun letter to Alfred Wegner informing him that his theory of continental drift has now been accepted with the discovery of new data.

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Playdough Boundaries Lab

The document describes a lab activity where students build models of the three types of plate boundaries using playdough - convergent boundaries between two oceanic plates, convergent boundaries between continental plates, and convergent boundaries between an oceanic and continental plate. Students also model divergent boundaries between oceanic plates and continental plates, and transform boundaries. They answer questions about the resulting land formations and provide real world examples for each boundary type. The document also asks students to describe how the oceanic crust and tallest points on Earth's crust were formed, and to write a fun letter to Alfred Wegner informing him that his theory of continental drift has now been accepted with the discovery of new data.

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Playdough Boundaries Lab

Directions: For each boundary build a playdough model. Include arrows made with a contrasting color to show the
direction the plates are moving. Answer the questions and give 2 real examples for each.

1. What are the three types of plate boundaries?


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2. Make a convergent boundary (oceanic crust to oceanic crust)

What land formations occur at this boundary?______________________________________________________


Give 2 real examples___________________________________________________________________________

3. Make a convergent boundary (continental crust to continental crust)

What land formations occur at this boundary?_________________________________________________________

Give 2 real examples_____________________________________________________________________________


4. Make a convergent boundary (oceanic crust to continental crust)

What land formations occur at this boundary?__________________________________________________________

Give 2 real examples______________________________________________________________________________

5. Make a divergent boundary (oceanic crust to oceanic crust)

What land formations occur due to this boundary?_______________________________________________________

Give 2 real examples_______________________________________________________________________________

6. Make a divergent boundary (continental crust to continental crust)

What land formations occur due to this boundary?__________________________________________________

Give 2 real examples___________________________________________________________________________


7. Make a transform boundary

What land formations or features occur due to this boundary?_________________________________________

Give 2 real examples

8. What is the deepest part of the earth’s crust and how was it formed?___________________________________
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9. What is the tallest point on the earth’s crust and how was it formed?___________________________________
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10. In this space write to tell Alfred Wegner that his work was finally accepted. Include new data that was found.
(Make it fun, I don’t want to be bored. 😊
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