Earth Science
Volcanoes Internet Search
Name: Wellington Rodriguez
Date: 2/16/22
Complete the worksheet below and use the information to answer the questions.
Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_volcanoes and scroll down to a country and click on it.
Then find a volcano. (The ones found in the U.S. are listed by state.)
1.Name of volcano: Masaya
2.Country the volcano is located in: Nicaragua
3.Year of most recent significant eruption: 1993
4.Date of most recent activity report: 2008
5.Describe the recent activity at this volcano: exploded and formed
Click on the Coordinates of your volcano (these should be in blue) and open a new window in
Google Maps to see where your volcano is on the earth. Crater San Fernando, Nicaragua
http://www.learner.org/interactives/dynamicearth/plate.html - the website does not work
6.Examine the map on this page. What type of boundary is your volcano located on?
7.Examine the map on the same page. What plates are converging or diverging to cause the
volcano you have been researching?
8.Read through the list on this page. What seems to be the main cause of death due to
volcanoes? http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0197833.html
Pyroclastic density currents are the dominant fatal cause at 5 to 15 km.
9.How do these activities kill so many people? Use the following page to explain your answer.
http://www.geo.mtu.edu/volcanoes/hazards/primer/
Bombs hit and killed a few treed and animals near the summit, and melted road asphalt.
10. What other kinds of damage do these activities cause?
with the elevated salience level of his invisible hazard deriving from the highly
perceptible impacts of the degassing.
11. http://www.swisseduc.ch/stromboli/perm/hawaii/h00-en.html
Go to this site and navigate through the virtual field trip to Kilauea, Hawaii. Read the
introduction and look over the map to see where this trip takes you. Click the blue START!
button to begin.
What lava structures are observed through the 14 slides in this section?
The liquid lava flowing beneath a thin, still-plastic crust drags and wrinkles it into
tapestry-like folds and rolls resembling twisted rope.