P & H The eruption of Mount Vesuvius 79AD Chapter 2

Campania felix is the name the Romans gave to the location

• from the foot of the Apennine mountains to the bay at Misenum

• from the foot of the Apennine mountains to the Sorrentine Peninsula in the south.

• from the foot of the Apennine mountains to the coastline of Herculaneum

• from the foot of the Apennine mountains to the region of Neapolis

Pliny the Elder was

• an admiral of the Roman fleet at the time of the eruption and a military general

• an admiral of the Roman fleet at the time of the eruption and a local politician

• an admiral of the Roman fleet at the time of the eruption and a well-known naturalist

• an admiral of the Roman fleet at the time of the eruption and a wealthy landowner

What were the Phlegraean Field

• 15-km-wide series of craters, that led to gloomy caves

• 15-km-wide series of craters, that led to the underworld of giants

• 15-km-wide series of craters, were the God Vulcan lived according to Egyptian mythology

• 15-km-wide series of craters, pools filled with boiling mud and vents through which sulphur and steam escape

Tacitus writes of a great earthquake that 'largely demolished the populous of Campania'. What year was this?

• 52AD

• 50AD

• 62AD

• 60AD

What is the correct day ant time of the eruption?

• 1pm 24th August 79AD

• 1pm 24th October 79AD

• 1pm 24th September 79AD

• 1pm 24th November 79AD

The Plinian phase refers to:

• the phase that produced a tsunami

• the phase that produced confusion and death

• the phase that produced pyroclastic surges and flows

• the phase that produced a rain of pumice and ash

The Pelean phase refers to:

• devastating rain of pumice and ash

• devastating pyroclastic surges and flows

• devastating collapse of Mount Vesuvius

• devastating pumice that filled the entire Bay of Naples

This map shows the extent of:

• pumice fall during the fourth phase of the eruption

• pumice fall during the third phase of the eruption

• pumice fall during the second phase of the eruption

• pumice fall during the first phase of the eruption

This is a photo of present day:

• Herculaneum

• Pompeii

• Oplontis

• Boscoreale

This is a present day photo of:

• Oplontis

• Boscorele

• Pompeii

• Herculaneum