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Volcano Gases and Solids
Gases: steam (H2O) sulfur dioxide(S02), hydrogen sulphide (H2S), carbon sulphide (CS), carbon disulfide (CS2), carbon monoxide(CO), carbon dioxide(C02), fluorine (F), bromine (Br), chlorine (Cl), hydrogen chloride (HCl), Hydrogen(H2), methane (CH4), hydrogen fluoride (HF), hydrogen bromide (HBr), mercury(Hg), lead(Pb), and gold(Au).

Chemical Elements and Minerals in ash particles and lava rock samples:
silica, Chromium (Cr), Lead (Pb), Manganese (Mn), Cadmium (Cd), Strontium (Sr). Copper (Cu), Aluminum (Al), Calcium (Ca), Magnesium (Mg), Zinc (Zn), Titanium (Ti), Mercury (Hg) and Iron (Fe)
VOLCANOES - Effects on Health
Respiratory -breathing ash asthma, bronchitis, emphysema • Gas Plumes and Airplanes • Crops, land - poisons in volcano ash    Effects in ocean - Hydrothermal Volcanoes  •  Geotourism - safe viewing  •  Destruction: Buildings, transportation,communication   Good & Bad Bacteria that live in underwater volcano soils •  Study Martian Volcanoes on Earth
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Lesson plans

Introduce students to idea that volcanoes affect people's health

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If students have access to the internet at the same time
you can allow the students a few minutes to play with the volcano erupting
this reinforces

Gas and health effects:
start with introducing the idea that the gas plume from an eruption contains gases that can affect people and animal health

Look at what the volcano in hawaii looks like
gas is usally coming out of the vent
http://www.volcanoexperience.com/hawaii.html

webcam offers view from national park, updated every few minutes
you can see the visitors so you know its not the same picture
if it is black, it is night time in Hawaii, but sometimes you can see the red glow

at
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or

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is graphic of what is in the gas

at http://www.volcanoexperience.com/hawaii.html
is more detailed info on what is in the gas

Do people live near the volcano?
demographic map on
http://www.volcanoexperience.com/hawaii.html

You can also compare whether 30 years after Mount St Helens eruption people live there
demographic map - 2010: Mt St Helen's 2000 - 2009 population


Washington state
Mt St. Helens (USA) - Washington state webcam


volcanic ash travels - Mt St Helens 1980



links to webcams for yellowstone and other volcano sites
http://www.volcanoexperience.com/links.html

Topics you can teach



Air Quality in Hawaii
Current Sulfur conditions

How gas plume can travel
Effect of iceland's eruption on air traffic in Europe
http://www.volcanoexperience.com/iceland.html
webcam offers what Iceland looks like near the volcano, updated every few minutes

You can show your students how chemicals make the eruption with baking soda and vinegar
http://www.volcanoexperience.com/makeyourownvolcano.html
includes video of collage students making large volcano eruption

Make a volcano cake.. dry ice on top for gasses

You can also talk about what is in the volcano ash and how that affects animals that eat the ash on the grass

Look thru the site for other things that might be useful http://www.volcanoexperience.com

underwater volcanoes
volcanoes on mars
Geotourism - Costa Rica volcanoes
Pompeii. Mt Vesuvius and ancient volcanoes
Effects on livestock and crops - New Zealand volcanoes
Mercury in Soil and local water - Italy volcanoes
Destruction - Lava, Boulders,buildings, transportation, communication, power outages - Guatemala volcanoes
What is in the gas - Breathing and Respiratory - Hawaii volcanoes
How does it effect air traffic - Iceland volcanoes

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Send your comments! Thanks - addlink@volcanoexperience.com
If the survey is online, let your students fill it out, do they know that

*Some volcano gases are poisonous.


* Yes
* No

*If before going near a volcano, you have breathing problems such as asthma, bronchitis, and emphysema, could breathing in volcanic gases and ash make it worse?


* Yes
* No

*Cows and sheep that eat the grass where ash has fallen often get sick or die from fluorine in the ash.


* Yes
* No

*Volcanoes are fun to visit (geotourism) but can be dangerous.


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Take our three question survey in the pop up window to tell us if you know that
Volcano gases could be poisonous,
cows and sheep that eat the grass where ash has fallen often get sick or die from flourine and people breathing in the gases or ash might have breathing problems.
Volcanos are fun to visit (geotourism) but can be dangerous.
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