Volcanoes
Portfolio Assignment #2
Portfolio Assignment-Volcanoes
Part I:
Go to the book's web site and chapter 4. Go through the "multiple
choice quiz".
Put your score and the date for the quiz on a sheet of paper and place it in
your portfolio.
Although not required for the portfolio, it would be a good idea to go over the end of chapter questions for all chapters covered before the exam
Part II: Volcano Web exercise.
Go to the Volcano World Site:
http://volcano.und.edu/vw.html
Go to the Current Eruptions link and click on the latest eruption of Soufriere Hills,
Read through the reports going back a few months. Note the record of events
continues for several years.
The following should be answered in your portfolio (remember that your
sentences must be your own, not those of the site):
1. What volcanic activity caused the destruction of
the capital city of
2. When was the last time the volcanic activity closed an airport on the Island?
Next go to the Current Volcanic Activity report for Popocatepetl volcano near Mexico City.
Go to the "GVP/USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Report" and click on "Popocatepetl".
3. What kind of feature grew in the crater at Popocatepetl in December of 2002?
4. What destroyed this feature throughout 2003?
Return to the Volcano World home page and under the volcano name list find
and go to Shasta, Mount.
5 . What rock forms Mt. Shasta?
6 . How long ago did the Shastina
cone form?
7 . What is the youngest eruptive center at Shasta and
how long ago did it erupt (what year AD?)?
8 . During the last 3,500 years, what has been the
frequency of eruption of Mt. Shasta?