Authors Purpose
The reason the author provided visuals (pictures) in the text.
What is to intrigue the audience and provide clarity?
The year 1815 in Indonesia.
What is the year Tambora erupted?
The usual weather in a specific place.
What is climate?
12,000 people.
What is the amount of casualties (deaths) caused instantly from Tambora's eruption?
20 mile radius.
What is the danger zone around an erupting volcano.
What is to show how the eruption of Tambora effected not only the island but the world?
The island of Sumbawa.
What is where Tambora lies?
Meaning inactive.
What is dormant?
What mobs of people in Paris did as a result of blackened farmland.
What is broke into warehouses and stole food?
The ring of fire.
What is a ring of more than 250 active volcanoes in the Pacific Ocean.
The purpose of adding the character John Hoisington to the story.
(Real world affect and application)
The effects of Tambora in India.
What is a major outbreak of cholera from an irregular monsoon season?
The upper portion of the sky where clouds rarely form and the air is cold.
What is the stratosphere?
The amount of miles the Hoisington's and other families traveled.
What is 1,000 miles?
(migration)
Active, Dormant, and Extinct.
What are the three stages of a volcano?
Why the author included information about different volcanoes other than Tambora.
What is to compare and contrast for context? (Answers will vary)
The reason Tambora's eruption was not known for over a year.
What is technology and means of communication were not as productive as today?
Smoke or steam that rises into the air in a tall thin shape.
What are plumes.
The way scientists track volcano eruptions today.
What is with computers and satellites?
The amount of volcanoes erupting right now.
What is about 20?
What is to make her claims valid?
(When making claims we have to provide valid evidence from reliable sources)
Where the cloud of smoke and ash ended up from Tambora's eruption.
What is the stratosphere?
A quickly flowing mixture of gas and hot pieces of rock that come out of a volcano during a violent eruption.
What is a pyroclastic surge?
30,000,000 people.
What is the overall amount of casualties from Tambora's explosion and effects across the world?
The volcano Toba.
What is the largest and most catastrophic volcano in history?
It took place 73,000 years ago and sent the world into an ice age.