Students studying plate tectonics will better understand its concepts with this virtual experiment that tests how plates move on the surface of the earth. Temperature, composition, and thickness of plates can be changed to create new mountains, volcanoes, or oceans.

Concepts

buoyancy, density, plate tectonics

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Additional Tags

crust, lithosphere, mantle, plates, phet

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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