AshworthVolcanoes

1. Describe your type of weather/natural disaster.Volcano's produce a wide varitey of natural hazards that can kill people and destory property. Some hazards such as larhads and landslides can even ocur when a volcano is not erupting! Also a volcano is a conial landform or mountain built from lava and ash. pretty cool!

Source:http://facstaff.gpc.edu/~pgore/Earth&Space/GPS/volcanism.html

2. Describe a time when your type of weather/natural disaster changed the world. In the 1600'sa Peruvian volcano blew its top. and the worl may have felt it. Ashes and lava covered villages. The eruption in 1600 of Huaynaputina a startovalcano in the Andes mountain, blanketed nerby villages. wirtyh glowing rocks and ashes killed 1,500 people.

source: http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080411/full/news.2008.747.html

3.Identify and define some tools used to analyze or measure your type of weather/natural disaster. Scientest use tools like: NOAA weather satelites. And volcanic thermal anomalies. adn the puff plume tracking model is used to analyze plume movement and predict trajectory.

Source: http:// www. avo.alsaka.edu/about/remote.php