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MT. VESUVIUS A.D 79
by: Matt DelGreco, Alex Brown, and Dylan Bruskie
Section #3 Grade 8
HISTORIAN
• Vocanoes are cause by gases and buoyancy in the earth’s
crust. When the gases’ pressure increases, the magma
rises up and erupts out of the vocano.
• When magma cools, it forms new land masses. The
magma hardens after the eruption and forms new land.
The American Red Cross Can
Help
If you live near a volcano, you should keep man emergency kit
near by. Some of the things you should put in your kit are:
-Food
-Water
-Medicine
-goggles to protect your eyes
-An air mask
-Emergency phone numbers
If you know that a volcano is going to erupt, you should
evacuate. You should know the evacuation plan for your area.
Don’t try to stay, because you never know how bad it can get. If
you are trapped, you should try to stay inside with doors and
windows closed, to try to keep ash out. Your best chance is
evacuation, do what the authorities ask you to.
GEOLOGIST
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Extremely high temperatures and pressure beneath the Earths crust
melts rocks into a liquid form, called magma. Once magma is
formed it’s always trying to make itself rise and erupt out of the
chamber because the magma is less dense the rock it’s beneath.
When the magma chambers are filled pressure begins to increase
between the gases and liquids. Without enough pressure the
volcano will most likely not erupt. Once the magma is released
from the chamber and begins to flow on land it’s called “lava”
which will basically destroy anything in it’s path.
Eruptions from volcano’s can effect human life in a major way if
enough magma is released from the volcano. Lets say a major
eruption happen, when the magma is released from the chambers
and begins to spread onto land it’s so hot it will burn anything.
Pompeii, Italy’s volcano erupted a couple of times. A disaster
occurred in Pompeii when the volcano erupted in A.D. 79, Mt.
Vesuvius. When this volcano erupted 2,000 human beings were
killed, without knowing the volcano had even erupted due to it
was to long ago they did not have technology like we do now.
THANK YOU
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