The purpose of this activity is for students to create a desktop soil profile based on the biome region of the United States where your school is located.
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Review this page to learn about the background of volcanoes and their eruptions.
Students categorize causes, effects, and responses to volcanic hazards through an Earth system perspective. They use remotely sensed images to examine the visible effects of the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980 and identify a buffer zone for safer locations for development.
Students will use NASA Satellite data of aerosol optical depth and sulfur dioxide as a tool to find evidence of volcanic activity at Kilauea, HI.
The Earth System Satellite Images help students observe and analyze global Earth and environmental data, understand the relationship among different environmental variables, and explore how the data change seasonally and over longer timescales.
Students model Earth's tectonic plate movement and explore the relationship between these movements and different types of volcanoes.