Year 7 Home Learning
Hazards
4. Volcano Research
In class, you have been learning about how tectonic hazards impact upon our lives.
For this home learning task, you need to research a recent volcanic event (within the last
3 years). You can complete this task as a PowerPoint presentation, a poster or a piece of
written work. You will need to submit your work via BromCom – speak to your teacher if
you are unsure on how to do this.
You need to both describe and explain your ideas in detail, offering your own opinions
and using specific information/evidence to support and illustrate your answers.
What you need to include:
1) Introduction and title: What is your piece of work about? What volcanic eruption
will you be writing about? What is the title will you give your piece of work?
2) Location: Where did the event happen? Can you show this on a map? Which
countries were affected? Which places were affected?
3) Background: When did the event take place – time and date? How long did the
event last? What was the size of the event? Did the event occur in a rich or poor
country? Has the country had volcanic eruptions before? Do they suffer from other
hazards?
4) Causes: What made it happen? Why did it occur? Consider tectonic plates and
different type of plate boundaries.
5) Effects: What was the impact of the event? How many people died / were injured?
What damage was caused to buildings, roads etc? You should use relevant facts and
figures.
6) Responses: What was done to help the people affected? What was done
immediately? What long-term help was provided?
7) Opinions: How do you think this event affected the people involved? How do you
feel about it? How would you react?
