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Warm-up What is your favorite holiday tradition?
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Volcanoes
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What are volcanoes? A volcano is an opening in Earth that erupts gases, ash, and lava.
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How do volcanoes form? Magma is less dense than the rock around it, so it is forced toward the surface Vent: Opening that magma flows through Crater: The steep-walled depression around a volcano’s vent
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Where do volcanoes occur? Divergent Plate Boundaries – Plates move apart as magma comes up forming a volcano Convergent Plate Boundaries – Oceanic Plates subduct under Continental Plates and melt into magma that will sometime rise to form a volcano
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Where do volcanoes occur?
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Hot Spots – Areas between Earth’s mantle and core that are unusually hot. Example: – Hawaiian Islands Pacific Plate moving over a stationary hot spot.
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Hot Spot Occurrence
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What controls eruptions? The more trapped gases, silica and water vapor the more explosive the eruption.
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What controls eruptions? – quiet eruption -> Basaltic Magma, silica poor – Silica Rich: explosive eruption Granitic Magma, Mount St. Helens, WA – Intermediate Silica: Quiet / explosive eruption. Andesitic Magma, Convergent Plate Boundaries, Krakatau, South America
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Forms of Volcanoes Shield Volcano – Quiet eruptions – Silica poor – Basaltic lava – Layers buildup and form a broad volcano with gently sloping sides – Example: Hawaiian Islands
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Forms of Volcanoes Cinder Cone Volcanoes – Explosive eruptions – Silica rich – Granitic lava – Steep sides of loosely packed tephra (ash) – Paricutín, Mexico
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Forms of Volcanoes Composite Volcano/ Stratovolcano – Varying explosions depend on amount of silica and trapped gases. – Andesitic lava – Dome shaped – Mount Saint Helens, WA
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Violent Eruptions 1883: Krakatau, Indonesia 1906: Vesuvius, Italy 1983: Kilauea, Hawaii 2000: Popocatepetl, Mexico
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Terms you will need to know Pyroclastic Flow- Ground hugging avalanche of tephra and gases Lahar- Mudflow with rock fragments Caldera- A crater like depression left from a prior eruption SuperVolcano- a volcano created from a hot spot that has the power to cause substantial damage
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Volcano Carousel Read your article Fill in graphic Organizer Create a poster of your volcano to present to the class
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Warm-Up The volcano handout you picked up!
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https://www.youtube.com/watc h?v=JRV4xTT8FB8 https://www.youtube.com/watc h?v=JRV4xTT8FB8
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Pompeii RAFT Role: Pompeii villager Audience: yourself Form: Journal entry Topic: Pompeii eruption Be sure to include at least 5 volcanic facts in your Narration Type of volcano Type of lava flow Type of Emissions Type of Eruption How the volcano formed
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Study Guide Work with a partner to complete your study guide You have until 1:40
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