When you put some drops of water on a hot plate why do they move like if they were dancing?

Question: When you put some drops of water on a hot plate why do they move like if they were dancing?
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Asked by 796genp44 to Lisa, Kieran, Fiana, David on 8 Nov 2018.
- Fiana answered on 8 Nov 2018:
  
  Cool question! If only I could dance as well as a water drop on a hot plate 🙂
  
  If the hot plate is really, really hot, then when a drop hits the bottom, it can vaporize so fast and hard that it pushes the droplet back up and off the pan 🙂

Question: When you put some drops of water on a hot plate why do they move like if they were dancing?