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    Pakistan International School Jeddah (E.S.

    Social Studies - Y6

    Ch 11 Natural Disasters

    Volcanoes

    1. What is a volcano?
    A volcano is a crack in the rust of the Earth from which molten rock called magma, ash,
    and gases flow to the surface.

    2. What is lava?
    When magma reaches the surface, it is known as lave.

    3. How is a volcanic mountain formed with the movement of convergent and divergent
    plats?
    When convergent and divergent plates move, they cause the crust to crack open in certain
    places usually around plate boundaries. Magma, volcanic ash, and gases escape to the
    surface through these cracks. Over the years layers upon layers of magma cool down
    around the crack raising the surrounding area, and so volcanic mountains formed.

    4. How volcanic island is created?


    Such volcanoes can form underwater. When the land around these volcanoes rises
    enough to reach above the surface of water, it becomes volcanic island.

    5. Hot spots are permanent cracks in the crust, how they work to create a volcanic
    mountain?
    Magma comes to surface through these cracks.

    6. How weak spots are created?


    Weak spots are created by stretching and thinning of the Earth’s crust.

    7. How many types of volcanoes? Name them.


    There are three types of volcanoes.
    a. Active volcano
    b. Dormant / Sleeping volcano
    c. Extinct / dead volcano
    8. What is an active volcano? Give at least two examples.
    An active volcano is one that has erupted recently and will probably erupt again soon.
    • Mount Etna and Stromboli in Italy
    • Kilauea in Hawaii

    9. What is dormant/sleeping volcano? Give two examples.


    It is a mountain that has not erupted for some time but there are signs of activity inside
    the volcano. There are chances of an eruption sooner or later.
    • Mount St. Helens in Washington
    • Mauna Kea in Hawaii
    • Sete Cidades in Potugal

    10. What is extinct/dead volcano? Give two examples.


    An extinct or dead volcano is one that has not erupted for a long time, and it is unlikely that it will
    erupt again. There are no signs of any activity inside the volcano.
    • Mount Kenya in Africa
    • Hawaiian Emperor sea mountain chain in the Pacific Ocean
    • Hohentwiel, Shiprock, and the zuidwal volcanoes in the Netherlands

    Tsunami:
    1. Tsunami is the word of which language?
    Tsunami is the word of Japanese language.

    2. What does the word Tsunami mean?


    Harbour wave

    3. What is Tsunami?
    Tsunami is a giant wave or a series of giant waves, created as earthquakes in the ocean or
    seabed displace large amounts of water.

    4. When was tsunami occurred in Japan?


    March 11, 2011

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