The process that the student is trying to model by pulling the sheets of paper through the slit in opposite directions is similar to B. sea floor spreading. In sea floor spreading, tectonic plates move apart from each other, and new material is formed as magma rises to fill the gap, analogous to the action of the student pulling the sheets of paper apart through the slit.
A student takes a piece of cardboard and cuts a rectangular slit in it. He then places two sheets of paper below the cardboard and pulls them through the slit. The sheets are pulled by their edges in opposite directions. Which extremely slow process is he trying to model?
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A mountain buildingmountain building
B sea floor spreadingsea floor spreading
C formation of the Grand Canyonformation of the Grand Canyon
D convergence of tectonic plates
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