How to do this task:
- Fill a beaker with cold tap water. Then place this beaker on a tripod, which is sitting over a burning candle. (See diagram below). Leave for 2 minutes.
- Carefully drop a small amount of tea down the side of this beaker.
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Write down all your observations for the "movement" of the tea leaves in the water.
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| b) |
On the diagram above, use arrows to draw the path that the tea leaves took once they had reached the bottom of the beaker.
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| c) |
Explain why the tea leaves moved in this way.
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