The Volcano that Changed the World

What does the word dormant mean?

• Used to describe something that is active

• Used to describe something that is inactive

• Something that is extinct or no longer exists.

• Something that is hidden.

Long spells of very high weather is called _______

• Earthquake

• Drought

• Tsunami

• Explosion

Long journeys to a new home or to another country or region.

• migration

• vacation

• field trip

• sight seeing

Something like smoke or stream that rises into the air in tall, thin shape is called.

• ashes

• explosion

• plumes

• smoke

Where is Mount Tambora located?

• England

• United States

• Singapore

• Indonesia

The eruption of Mt. Tambora killed at least how many people?

• 12,000 people

• 12,000,000 people

• 12,000 people

• 1,200 people

In what year did Mount Tambura erupt?

• 1915

• 1815

• 2015

• 1715

News and information traveled very slowly in 1815, what was their way to get a letter?

• By USPS

• Through Fedex

• Through a sailing ship

• By bicycle.

Tambora's cloud hovered in the sky for about how many years?

• 3 years

• 5 years

• 10 years

• 4 years

About how many millions of people died from Tambora's effect around the world?

• 5 million

• 10 million

• 30 million

• 50 million