minerals, rocks, and soil

Deep-Ocean Volcanoes
Name________________________________________ Date_____________
Directions: Write your responses on this sheet or on separate paper.

1. Where do most volcanic eruptions on Earth occur? Why do you think this is so?

2. Where is the West Mata

Volcano located? Mark
and label your response
on the globe.

3. How do underwater volcanoes relate to the formation of some ocean islands?

4. How can scientists more easily locate deep-ocean volcanoes? Propose a new idea.

5. Would you expect to find living things thriving near a deep-ocean volcano?
Why or why not?

Credits: main: Courtesy of NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory/National Science Foundation/NOAA National Ocean Service/NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research/NOAAs National
Geophysical Data Center/NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio/University of Washington/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; inset: iStockphoto.com/Natasa Tatarin

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