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The Dog of Pompeii WebQuest
PART 1: Pompeii
1. Pompeii joined the __________________________ in ___________.
2. In ___________ a terrible earthquake left Pompeii devastated. Then the second
and ________ disaster hit the eruption of ______________________.
3. For ___________ days, volcanic matter covered Pompeii, making a blanket
___________to _____________ feet deep over the entire area.
4. The survivors who escaped the eruption were soon killed by __________________.
PART 3: odyssey- Rome
5. Pompeii lay untouched and undiscovered until its discovery in the _______________
and excavation beginning in the ____________________________.
6. Click on Public Life: Pompeii was a _____________________ town.
It included a _______________, an open square of marketplace. This part of the
city is where _________________, __________________, and
__________________ activities took place.
7. Click on Theaters: For popular entertainment, the Romans borrowed the
_____________________ theater form.
8. For large spectacles or sporting events, they invented their own building design- the
____________________ , which were very similar to modern _____________.
9. Click back, click on Shops: Archeologists working at Pompeii have
also uncovered shops for ______________________, ___________________,
and mills for ____________________.
10. Click back, click on Baths: Romans went to large, public ____________________.
The baths were a place to _____________________ as well as a
_______________________ where Romans met friends to exercise and chat.
PART 4: What did the Eruption look like?
15. This animation shows the ____________________ stage of an eruption. It is
named after _______________, a Roman soldier who watched the eruption and
tried to help some of the people.
16. During this stage, ___________, _____________, _____________, and
_____________ erupt high into the air, but no __________ flows.
17. In the next stage, a superhot cloud of ____________ and ____________ flowed
down the side of Vesuvius covering the town of __________________________.
PART 5: What kind of volcano is Vesuvius?
18. Vesuvius is a __________________ volcano, made up of alternate layers of
__________________ and _________________.
PART 6: Why is Vesuvius located where it is?
19. Vesuvius is located where one section of the earth is pushing against the other.
These sections are called ___________________. The plate that is pushed down is
heated until it melts, forming ________________. Because magma is less
_____________ than the rock around it, it is pushed upward.
20. If it finds a weak place, it may break through and form a ___________________.
PART 7: Map of Pompeii (Fill in the boxes with the words from the diagram)