Volcanoes

http://ology.amnh.org/
earth/plates/index.html

Interactive, Information
Level C/D

Brilliant site “Plates on the Move” from American Museum of Natural History. Easy to follow.

Information and animated drawings about tectonic plates, how plates affect the world and the power of plates. Why do mountains form, volcanoes erupt and the earth shake?

www.pbs0=.org/wnet/savageearth/
animations/hellscrust/index.html

Information Level D

Animation showing formation of earthquakes and volcanoes.

Watch the animations to find out about the layers of the earth and what happens when the tectonic plates move or are pulled apart in the middle.

www.field-trips.org/tours/sci/
volcano/_tourlaunch1.htm

Information Level C/D

Tramline Volcano Field trip.

Go on a virtual volcano field trip. Visit Hawaii, Mount St Helens and Io, one of Jupiter’s moons, to find out how volcanoes are formed and what happens in an eruption.

www.learner.org/exhibits/volcanoes/

Information Level D

• Can we predict volcanic eruptions?
• How do volcanoes form? Why do volcanoes erupt in different ways?
• What happens when a volcano erupts?
• How can we reduce the risk?

Watch videos showing the two different types of lava flow (at the bottom of Melting Rocks) and of the huge explosion of Katm ai (at the bottom of Judging Hazards).

www.scholastic.com/play/
preVolcano.htm

Level C Interactive

IInteractive quiz about volcanoes.

Answer the questions correctly for the big bang!

http://dsc.discovery.com/
convergence/pompeii/
interactive/interactive.html

Interactive Level C/D

• Global perspective.
• Volcano types.
• Inside a volcano.

Set the conditions of your own volcano then watch it erupt!

www.abcteach.com/
wordpuzzles/onlinepuzzles/
volcano.html

Interactive Level D

Interactive crossword using volcano vocabulary.

Can you complete the interactive crossword?

www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/
programmes/supervolcano/
game.shtml

Interactive Level C

You are the newly appointed chief of the Emergency Management Agency. Can you protect the people from an erupting volcano?

Mount Spur is about to erupt. You have 6 minutes to organise a 14 day emergency response. Sit back and watch your plans in action.

http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/
edu/predict/EP_look_800.html

Information and Interactive

Level D

Scientists can provide warnings of volcanic eruptions. Find out methods used to track a volcano’s activity and make forecasts.

Read the information then go to Exercise to simulate an earthquake.

Predict an eruption at Mount St Helens using the data given.

http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/
Outreach/ AboutVolcanoes/
framework.html

Information Level D

Frequently asked volcano questions.

All the answers you wanted to know.

http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/
volcanoes.html

Information Level C, D

Satellite images of volcanoes

Go to Earths Volcanoes. Click on the region you would like to see for photographs of volcanoes from space

www.volcanolive.com/
volcanocams.html

Information Level C

Live views of volcanoes from all over the world.

Compare the different volcanoes.

http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/
About/Where/VDAP/main.html

Information Level D

US Volcano Disaster Assistance Program

How does the mobile volcano response team help to save lives in a volcano crisis?