Vocab
Land surrounded by water
How can volcanic ash help the environment?
Minerals in volcanic ash can help plants grow.
Some volcanoes are flat.
True (Mauna Loa in Hawaii)
What is the genre of the text “Volcanoes” and “To the Rescue?”
Expository
What is the "Earth"
Ground, land, water. The planet we live on
How does a volcano form?
When magma pushes up through an existing mountain.
The earth’s core is cold.
False
What is the authors purpose in “Volcanoes” (persuade, inform, entertain)
Inform
What are "properties"
The qualities of something.
(example: a property of my water bottle is it is solid)
What is the ring of fire?
A string of volcanoes around the Pacific coast.
Volcano swells up when magma pushes up inside it.
True
What is a property of lava?
Runny, stiff, hot.
What does it mean if something is "steep"
Give an example.
Almost straight up and down.
ex: hill
What is the Earths crust broken into?
Plates
Ash is hot liquid rocks in the air that have cooled.
True
Two shapes of volcanoes
Cone-shaped and shield-shaped.