Geology Webquest

It's time to dig into geology in a digital way.

Part 1: Earthquakes and Volanoes

Preview, play and enter your responses in the Earthquakes and Volcanoes around the World Simulation. Then email the link to your full responses to Mr. L.

Part 2: Volcano Quiz

Take the Volcano Quiz. Email your answers (in any electronic format) to Mr. L.

Below are the questions from the quiz that you can use to copy/paste into an email to Mr. L.

1. How many volcanoes are erupting around the world on any given day?

2. About how many volcanoes erupt every year around the world?

3. Mount Etna in Sicily, Italy, has been erupting regularly for longer than any other volcano in the world. How many years has it been? ______

4. What was the largest volcanic eruption (in terms of lava emissions) in modern times? _____________________________

5. This eruption decreased the world temperature by ________ and caused __________________ all over the world.

   1. What's the largest volcano in the world? ___________________________. It rises ___________________________ feet from the ocean floor and hasn’t erupted since _________.

6. When Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, it was the first volcanic eruption on the United States mainland since 1915.

7. Which volcano erupted in 1915? ____________________________ in the state of ________________________.

8. What's the difference between a Hawaiian and a Strombolian eruption?

9. A volcano is considered extinct when it hasn't erupted in ___________ years.

• 1. What's the only active volcano on the European mainland? _________________ _________________________ which is in _________________________.

10. How fast can volcanic ash move through the air? _________________________ and can reach temperatures of _______________________________________.