What does the map on page 8 show? How does it help you understand the article? Use details from the story to support your answer.
Question 8
8.
What is one descriptive detail the author uses to help you feel as if you were on John Hoisington’s farm in 1816? What is one descriptive detail that helps you experience the eruption of Mount Tambora?
What caused a snowstorm in Vermont in June 1816?
heavy rainfall
wildfires
droughts
a volcanic eruption
What means the same as spewing in the sentence “The volcano exploded with great fury, spewing out great towers of fire”?
spitting
holding down
lightning
swallowing
How did the eruption of Mount Tambora affect the world’s climate?
Its heat made the rest of the world hotter.
Its volcanic cloud blocked some of the sun’s rays.
Its lava flow reached many parts of the Earth.
Its ash fell down in other places like snow.
Which phrase below best supports the answer to question 3?
“Snow destroyed thousands of other East Coast farms . . .”
“. . . a wave of flames and gases swept down the mountain . . .”
“Ash and lava ruined the island’s soil and poisoned its rivers . . .”
“. . . the cloud blocked out some of the sun’s heat and light.”
How did the eruption of Mount Tambora affect John Hoisington’s family?
It led them to move
It destroyed their home
It forced them to sell their crops
It caused them to starve
One main idea of “The Volcano That Changed the World” is that natural disasters can be ______.