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Landforms are natural and distinctive features. Explore how they show up in various landscapes. These resources can be used to teach middle schoolers more about the natural world, its distinctive features, and landscapes.
Students read first-person accounts of volcanic eruptions and illustrate the eruptions in order to compare and contrast them. A volcano is a feature in Earth's crust where molten rock is squeezed out onto the Earth's surface.
Along with molten rock, volcanoes also release gases, ash, and solid rock. Join our community of educators and receive the latest information on National Geographic's resources for you and your students. Skip to content.
Mount Fuji Mount Fuji is an active volcano that last erupted in Photograph by Melville B. Grosvenor, National Geographic. Twitter Facebook Pinterest Google Classroom. Background Info Vocabulary. Select Text Level: Educator Family. The effects of an eruption, depending on whether lava is emitted or not, could be catastrophic. Although residents could be evacuated before lava reaches them, it could still destroy key transportation nodes near the mountain, experts say.
A professor from Ryukyu university has also warned that that an eruption could happen before the end of By providing your email, you agree to the Quartz Privacy Policy. Skip to navigation Skip to content. Discover Membership. Editions Quartz. Home Assumed scale and effects of a eruption represented in this map. This map covers areas at risk from lava flows, volcanic bomb and lapilli fallouts , pyroclastic flows, and mudflows from melting snow. Other dangers, such as volcanic ash, are likely to occur as well.
About Volcanic Ash. If Mt. Fuji erupts, volcanic ash may fall over a large area. Volcanic ash piles up thickly at the source of the eruption and thins out as the distance from the crater grows. However, volcanic ash distribution changes greatly depending on wind direction, speed, and size of the eruption.
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