Procedure: 1. Alternately lay the colored towels on top of each other on the floor. The different colored towel represents the rock strata.
2. Push two sides of your towel with your hand on opposite edge at the same time then hold.
Guide questions:
Answer the questions briefly. 1. What do you observe when you push the edge of the towel oppositely?
2. Draw and label the result of the activity and label the folds and faults.
3. What does the folding of the towels represent?
4. This simple experiment show's what will happen during movement of tectonic plates. Aside from folding and faulting; what other features are formed?
5. Using your observation in this activity, you may now write a brief summary on how the movement of plates leads in the formation of faults and fold.