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CyberHunt: Volatile Volcanoes

Invite your middle- and upper-grade students on an Internet-based adventure! To begin, send students to www.scholastic.com/cyberhuntkids, or directly to the interactive hunt.

CYBERHUNT ANSWER GUIDE
1. Magma.
2. Mauna Loa. Hawaii.
3. A caldera is a large depression caused by the collapse of a volcano.
4. Earthquakes
5. More than 500. (c.)
6. Venus.
7. Robots.
8. Two of the following: lava flow, falling ash, glowing avalanches, mud and debris flow, climate changes, atmospheric shock waves, tsunamis, volcanic earthquakes, or the release of suffocating gases.

MORE VOLCANO LINKS
Michigan Technological University Volcanoes Page
www.geo.mtu.edu/volcanoes
 
Thinkquest Volcanoes Online
http://library.thinkquest.org/17457/english.html?tqskip1=1
 
Volcano World
www.volcanoworld.org/
 
Volcanoes.com
www.volcanoes.com/
 
National Park Service: Hawaii Volcanoes
www.nps.gov/havo/
 
Alaska Volcano Observatory
http://www.avo.alaska.edu/
 
How Volcanoes Work
http://www.geology.sdsu.edu/how_volcanoes_work/
 
U.S. Geological Survey Cascades Volcano Observatory
http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/
 
 
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