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- 3. Few people had any idea that the ________ and the sulfur were warning signs that Pelée was going to erupt. P. 37
- 7. A few days after the ash and gleaming rocks, a river of boiling mud and ash roared down Mount Pelée at _________ miles an hour! P. 37
- 8. A small eruption of Pelée sent ash and ______ rocks into the air. P. 37
- 11. About seven thousand years before the American settlers arrived, the _______ Americans had been living in the Cascades. P. 34
- 12. Few people realized that Mount Pelée was a volcano. It had ________ a few times over the centuries. But it had been silent for more than 50 years (before 1902). P. 36
- 14. Within seconds, 30,000 people were dead in Saint-Pierre due to the wave of _______ hot gas that exploded out of the mountain and into the city. P. 39
- 15. Synonyms for this word include: “laughable, absurd, silly, and ludicrous.” P. 32
- 20. There have been massive explosions, lava flows, _______, and mud slides. P. 34
- 21. The Cowlitz tribe had a special name for Mt. St. Helens. The word’s meaning was “mountain of ______. P. 34
- 22. This word means “a long, narrow elevation of land; a chain of hills or mountains.” Cedar is a safe place because it is up on a __________ . P. 34
- 25. Synonyms for this word include: frightful, ghastly, horrid and dreadful. P. 38
- 26. Sam thought that the most dangerous part of an eruption was the _______. P. 35
- 27. Mount Pelée was the deadliest volcanic eruption of the _______ century. P. 35
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- 1. Dr. Morales felt the dangers were mudslides and rock avalanches. He also worried about the _________ surge, which is a wave of hot air that explodes out of the volcano. P. 35
- 2. The earthquakes ________ thousands of snakes that had been living on the mountain. P. 38
- 4. Mr. Rowan referred to Dr. Morales as Tim, a volcano expert, and mentioned that he works at a lab in Seattle. Mrs. Rowan asked, “You’re a _________?” P. 32
- 5. The proclastic surge includes toxic gas, ground-up rock, ash, and heat so ________ that it burns everything in its path. P. 40
- 6. The twins' Dad had invited Dr. ________ to join the group at Clive’s. P. 32
- 9. Clive’s Diner is located in _______, Washington. P. 31
- 10. Jess, Mr. Rowan and the twins looked bad when they entered Clive’s Diner. They were streaked with dirt and covered with _______ from their run down the mountain. P. 31
- 13. Wearing faded jeans and having overgrown curls, Dr. Morales looked more a member of a rock band than a person who worked in a __________. P. 33
- 16. When Jess’s Mom hugged her, Jess opened her mouth to tell her about Dad’s _________. P. 32
- 17. There was a strong smell of ______ gas seeping from deep inside the earth. It has a horrific smell, like rotten eggs and is used in the production fertilizers, matches, insecticides, and fungicides. P. 37
- 18. One eruption 500 years ago buried much of the _________ under about 200 feet of rock, ash and mud. P. 34
- 19. Mt. St. Helens erupted dozens of times over the past thousand years, the most recent eruption (before 1980) had been in eighteen _______ seven. P. 34
- 23. For 123 years, Mt. St. Helens has been peaceful and quiet. Dr. Morales referred to a volcano being quiet as the volcano being ___________ . P. 33
- 24. Dr. Morales said that he predicts that the volcano will erupt soon and that it’s going to erupt __________. P. 41
- 28. Mr. Rowan thought that Mt. St. Helens was “dead,” or __________. P. 33