When and Where
The state where Mount St. Helens is located.
What is Washington State?
George Vancouver
Who named Mount St. Helens?
The number of people killed in the eruption.
What is 57?
The type of volcano that Mount St. Helens is.
What is a composite volcano?
The date of the large eruption of Mount St. Helens.
What is May 18, 1980.
1968
When did scientists warn that Mount St. Helens would erupt?
Many acres of these were destroyed by the eruption.
What are forests?
The length of the eruption.
What is nine hours?
The time of the eruption.
When was 8:32 A.M.
This was the largest of its kind ever recorded.
What is the Mount St. Helens landslide?
The amount of money the damage caused
What is more than a billion dollars?
The size of the accompanying earthquake.
What was 5.1 magnitude?
The mountain range Mount St. Helens is a part of.
What is the Cascade Mountain Range?
The person who Mount St. Helens was named for.
Who is Alleyne Fitzherbert?
The estimated number of big game animals (deer, elk, bear) that were killed in the eruption.
What is over 7000?
The length of time it took for the ash cloud to go around the world.
What is 15 days (or 2 weeks)?
10,000 years ago
When was the first eruption of Mount St. Helens?
"Louwala-Clough" "Lawetlat'la" or "Loowit"
What were some of the names the Native Americans called Mount St. Helens?
Very hot ash, lava fragments, and gases ejected explosively and flowing downslope at great speed
What are pyroclastic flows?