Supervolcano Video Essay

Finishing Rock Unit

• Take Visual Rock Test During Video

• Rock Cycle Poster SUMMATIVE assessment has been reopened until midnight, February 15​

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Tectonic Features Unit:

• Volcanoes​, Earthquakes, and the features they create on Earth's Surface

• Last day to turn in assignments

  • March 9

• ​100 MC Unit Test

  • March 10 & 11

  • The Test will go on Quarter 4

• Quarter 3 ends

  • ​March 11

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​"A True story of global disaster . . . it just hasn't happened yet."

- Supervolcano

BBC ONE - 2005

 

1. Write a 5 paragraph essay addressing the following points

   • Describe the Yellowstone Caldera

   • Describe the "VEI" scale: what it measures, how it works, and how it applies to yellowstone

   • Describe how social pressures (the media, politicians, etc) affected the actions of the scientist in this movie

   • Describe how the eruption of Yellowstone would look like (as portrayed by this movie)

   • Describe how the eruption of Yellowstone would affect the world (as portrayed by this movie)

2. Essay Requirements

   • Each paragraph must be at least 5 sentences 

   • Essay must be typed into canvas directly

     • You may work on your essay in google docs, but you must copy and paste text into canvas

 

​Essay Assignment (Summative)