What made it break?(too much strain makes things break)

From: Highlights for Children | Date: December 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Pop! goes the bubble. Rip! goes the paper. Snap! goes the stick. Pop, rip, snap, crack....

These are the sounds of things breaking. What makes them break? The answer is too much strain.

Strain is s-t-r-e-t-c-h. You can stretch a rubber band a long way without breaking it. See how it gets thinner and thinner as it is stretched more and more? That means the rubber band has strain.

Can you find the thinnest part of the rubber band? That is a weak spot. If you stretch the rubber band a little bit farther ... Ouch! When the strain is too much, the rubber band breaks at ...

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