oday we have been imagining what it is actually like in an earthquake. We used polystyrene to represent the major plates on the Earth and floated them on water. We learnt that in real life, the tectonic plates float on magma (molten rock), so the water represented the magma. Firstly, we gently pulled the plates apart, then we gently bumped two plates together and finally we pushed one plate under the other. We considered the effects felt at the surface of the Earth when plate tectonic move.
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