This document provides information about three famous volcanoes: Mount Vesuvius, Mount St. Helens, and Mount Pelee. It describes how Mount Vesuvius erupted and destroyed Pompeii in the past. Mount St. Helens had the largest eruption of an American volcano in 1980. Only two people survived the eruption of Mount Pelee in 1902 which sent boiling mud, ash, and rock toward the town of Saint Pierre.

1. Famous Volcanoes
BY NOLA, SPENCER, LILY AND LUCAS

2. What is a volcano?
 A volcano is an opening in the top of the Earth’s surface.
 A volcano shoots out hot lava, which is melted rock.
 A volcano’s lava is so hot that it burns everything in its path!

3. How does a volcano erupt?
• Inside a volcano there is a extremely hot liquid called magma.
• The magma rises to the magma chamber.
• The pressure pushes the magma up to the top of the volcano.
• Magma rises through a tube or vent in the volcano
• Pressure on the magma gets stronger and stronger.
• Then , the Volcano erupts!
• When magma shoots out of the volcano it is called
lava .

4. Mount Vesuvius
• When mount Vesuvius erupted in the past, giant clouds of heavy smoke filled the air. Ash and mud dried
around the dead people and animals.
• Mount Vesuvius destroyed the city Pompeii too!

5. Mount Vesuvius
• Mount Vesuvius stands over 4,000 feet.
• The city Pompeii seemed to completely disappear
after being buried in the Mount Vesuvius eruption.

6. Mount St. Helens
• In the northwest corner of the United states there is a volcano called Mount
St. Helens .
• Hundreds of years ago Native Americans called it the smoking mountain .

7. Mount St. Helens
• The largest known explosion of an American
volcano came on May 18, 1980, at 8:32 a.m.
• Between 1980 and 1990, Mount St. Helens
erupted at least 21 more times.
• All of these eruptions were smaller than the
eruption of May 18, 1980.

8. Mount Pelee
 There were only 2 people who survived Mount Pelee’s explosion.
 One was a shoemaker.
 And there was a man who was a prisoner. The thick stone cell kept him
safe.

9. Mount Pelee
• There was a explosion on May 8, 1902.
• The volcano lit up with a flash like lightning and erupted.
• In the explosion, boiling mud, ash, and rock fired
out of the volcano, heading toward the town of Saint Pierre.