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This lesson plan on plate tectonics is a real crowd pleaser because you get to eat the demonstration when you have finished! It is easy to do and it demonstrates the action of a transform fault like the famous San Andreas Fault in California.
Lesson/Demonstration #5b: Transform Boundaries demonstration
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Explanation for the teacher/science behind the work: The transform boundaries occur between plates that are sliding by each other in opposite directions. Transform Faults occur at these locations and there are frequent earthquakes.
Statement: Transform Boundaries are boundaries between plated that are slipping side by side.
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Geologic Time Geologic Time Line
Cenozoic Era
Quaternary
Neogene
Paleogene
Mesozoic Era
Cretaceous
Jurassic
Triassic
Paleozoic Era
Permian
Carboniferous
Devonian
Silurian
Ordovician
Cambrian
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