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9/5 LT—HOW DO VOLCANOES AFFECT THE ATMOSPHERE?

9/5 LT—HOW DO VOLCANOES AFFECT THE ATMOSPHERE?. Just checkin ’. Do you have your QUIK NOTES pages 44-51 done? Do you have your BBC World News headlines complete? Are you beginning or finishing your paragraph on:

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9/5 LT—HOW DO VOLCANOES AFFECT THE ATMOSPHERE?

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  1. 9/5 LT—HOW DO VOLCANOES AFFECT THE ATMOSPHERE?

  2. Just checkin’ • Do you have your QUIK NOTES pages 44-51 done? • Do you have your BBC World News headlines complete? • Are you beginning or finishing your paragraph on: “How Will The World End?”—Write a ONE paragraph (5-7 sentences) about which event may end the world as we know it. DUE FRIDAY FOR NB CHECK

  3. BBC WORLD NEWS • St. Petersburg, RUSSIA—World leaders gather. • U.S.—Senate Foreign Relations committee votes for LIMITED military action in Syria. 3. CHILE—Government apologizes for Pinochet government human rights abuses. 4. CHINA—highest rate of diabetes in the world—12%, 140 M.

  4. NOTES: VOLCANOES

  5. Mt. Rainier

  6. Mount St. Helens

  7. Mount St. Helens • Erupted on May 18, 1980, at 8:32 a.m. PDT, the deadliest and most economically destructive volcanic event in the history of the United States. • Fifty-seven people were killed; 250 homes, 47 bridges, 15 miles of railways, and 185 miles of highway were destroyed. • A massive debris avalanche triggered by an earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale caused an eruption that reduced the elevation of the mountain's summit from 9,677 ft to 8,365 ft, replacing it with a 1 mile wide horseshoe-shaped crater.

  8. Mount St. Helens

  9. Mount St. Helens—the Mt. Fuji of America

  10. Human History—Importance to Native Americans • legends were inspired by the volcano's beauty. • American Indian lore contains numerous legends to explain the eruptions of Mount St. Helens and other Cascade volcanoes. The most famous of these is the Bridge of the Gods legend told by the Klickitats. In their tale, the chief of all the gods and his two sons, Pahto (also called Klickitat) and Wy'east, traveled down the Columbia River from the Far North in search for a suitable area to settle.[39] • They came upon an area that is now called The Dalles and thought they had never seen a land so beautiful. The sons quarreled over the land, so to solve the dispute their father shot two arrows from his mighty bow — one to the north and the other to the south. Pahto followed the arrow to the north and settled there while Wy'east did the same for the arrow to the south. The chief of the gods then built the Bridge of the Gods, so his family could meet periodically.[39] • When the two sons of the chief of the gods fell in love with a beautiful maiden named Loowit, she could not choose between them. The two young chiefs fought over her, burying villages and forests in the process. The area was devastated and the earth shook so violently that the huge bridge fell into the river, creating the cascades of the Columbia River Gorge.[40] • For punishment, the chief of the gods struck down each of the lovers and transformed them into great mountains where they fell. Wy'east, with his head lifted in pride, became the volcano known today as Mount Hood. Pahto, with his head bent toward his fallen love, was turned into Mount Adams. The fair Loowit became Mount St. Helens, known to the Klickitats as Louwala-Clough, which means "smoking or fire mountain" in their language (the Sahaptin called the mountain Loowit).[41]

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