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12 Lightning ©Teacher Created Resources 53 #5036 Daily Warm-Ups: Nonfiction Reading Warm-Up Check Your Understanding / 4 Name ______________________________________________ 1. Where is the lake of hot liquid rock? a. sixty miles beneath the surface b. in Canada c. beneath the rock crust in Yellowstone d. above the rock crust in Yellowstone 2. Where is the largest volcano in history located? a. Mount St. Helens c. Canada b. Yellowstone National Park d. both a and b 3. Which of these features is present at Yellowstone for people to observe? a. geysers c. exploding volcanoes b. mud pots d. both a and b 4. What is the purpose of the passage? a. to inform readers c. to entertain readers b. to ask questions d. to stop a volcano The largest volcano in the world is located in the western United States. The last explosion occurred 600,000 years ago. It blew away about sixty miles of mountains. It buried nineteen western states under several feet of ash. It also covered parts of Canada and Mexico with ash. The blast wiped out almost every living thing in a wide area. That explosion was 1,000 times greater than when Mount St. Helens blew. This giant volcano is sitting under Yellowstone National Park. It is just about the size of the two-million-acre park. The first known blowup happened over sixteen million years ago. This volcano has blown up about a hundred times since. The blasts occur about 600,000 years apart. No known volcano in history compares to the explosions that have occurred in Yellowstone. The damage caused by yet another explosion would be hard to imagine. A thin rock surface in Yellowstone covers a huge lake of hot liquid rock beneath the surface. This boiling hot pool of liquid rock is about forty-five miles across and eight miles deep. It has lifted Earth’s crust about one-third of a mile higher than it would normally be. This heat creates the hot springs, geysers, and mud pots in this popular national park. Scientifically Speaking Download 10.24 Kb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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