Benchmark Advance Unit 8 Week 1 Reading

What is our essential question?

• What nature can do

• How the past shapes the future

• How to react when nature changes

Under Earth's crust, there is a layer of large, rocky plates called the _____.

• rocks

• mantle

• lava

How does a volcano erupt? Choose all the correct answers

• Hot weather makes the volcano hot

• The heat and pressure build up until it explodes

• The mantle or plates slides, then melts, and pushes up

• Water and rocks gets hot and turns to magma

A tornado is NOT the fastest wind on the planet.

• True

• False

What describes a tornado? Choose all the right answers.

• It spins in a funnel shape

• It last a very long time

• It is not dangerous

• Destroys everything in its path

Where do tornadoes usually come from?

• Sunny weather

• Rainy weather

• Thunderclouds

• Snowstorms

What are examples of a tornadoes destruction? Choose all the correct answers.

• It can destroy forests

• It can destroy cars but not a house

• Can destroy animal habitats

• It causes pollution from the mess it makes

If you hear a tornado siren, what can you do? Choose all the correct answers.

• Get in your car and drive away

• Go to a basement

• Find the nearest table and get under

• Go to a closet if you don't have a basement

How can water be an artist?

• When it is used to make crayons

• When we use it to paint with water colors

• When it flows downhill and carves rocks into amazing shapes

• When we draw pictures of water

What is erosion?

• The wind that starts a tornado.

• When water moves over rock, it wears away the rock.

• The pressure that causes a volcano to erupt.

• The cold weather of a blizzard.