Discuss the positive impacts of volcanic activity.

Question 1

Tourism - What three countries is volcanic activity a major tourist attraction in?

Answer 1

Iceland, Italy and New Zealand

Question 2

Tourism - What does Valcanism create? What does it attract?

Answer 2

Landscapes that are very dramatic and they attract thousands of visitors each year.

Question 3

Tourism - How many people do what in Mount Fuji in Japan each year to view what?

Answer 3

About 200,000 people climb Mount Fuji in Japan each year to view the crater.

Question 4

Tourism - What do volcanic areas also provide ? Why are they attractive for tourists?

Answer 4

Volcanic areas also provide hot springs and hot mud pools which attract people to bathe in them because of the benefits to their skin or for fun.

Question 5

Tourism - What 2 countries is the activity that volcanic areas provide common in?

Answer 5

Turkey and Iceland.

Question 6

Tourism - What are Geysers?

Answer 6

Geysers are fountains of extremely hot water that erupt from the ground in volcanic regions.

Question 7

Tourism - How many visitors do Geysers attract each year?

Answer 7

Thousands of visitors.

Question 8

Tourism - Why are Geysers so popular?

Answer 8

Geysers are so popular because they erupt so dramatically and at regular intervals of 30 minutes or so.

Question 9

Tourism - Give an example of a Geyser.

Answer 9

Old Faithful in Yellowstone National Park, USA

Question 10

Tourism - When does a Geyser erupt?

Answer 10

Every 30-120 minutes.

Question 11

Tourism - How many people come to see Yellowstone National Park each year?

Answer 11

Each year 2.6 million people come to see it.

Question 12

Tourism - What is the advantage of the tourism that YNP provided?

Answer 12

It generated income for the local enonomy.

Question 13

Tourism - What are the economic benefits of tourism?

Answer 13

Increased income for the local and foreign currency exchange income for the national government.

Question 14

Tourism - In Iceland, each year, the arrival of how many visitors is worth how much euro to the economy?

Answer 14

In Iceland, each year, the arrival of half a million visitors is worth over 700 million euro to the economy?

Question 15

Tourism - What tourist services do many volcanic tourist attractions have?

Answer 15

Coffee Shops, Souvenir shops and restaurants located nearby.

Question 16

Tourism - Local people are employed as what for visitors?

Answer 16

Local people are employed as guides and drivers for visitors.

Question 17

Tourism - What is the multiplier effect?

Answer 17

When activities employ people and their wages spread through the local economy.

Question 18

Tourism - Visitors to YNP buy what to contribute to what?

Answer 18

Visitors to Yellowstone Nation Park buy services such as accomodation and transport and this contributes to the national economy of the country.

Question 19

Creation of land and fertile soil - How does volcanic activity create new land?

Answer 19

As lava is emitted from the volcano, it cools rapidly forming basalt rock. Over time, these layers of basalt build up and break the surface of ocean, forming a volcanic island.

Question 20

Creation of land and fertile soil - Give an example of an island creatived by volcanic activity?

Answer 20

Japan

Question 21

Creation of land and fertile soil - How was Japan created by volcanic activity?

Answer 21

The subduction of the Pacific Plate underneath the Eurasian Plate.

Question 22

Creation of land and fertile soil - What did magma rising from the melting plate create? How many years ago?

Answer 22

The Japanese archipelago 60 million years ago.

Question 23

Creation of land and fertile soil - When was Iceland created?

Answer 23

16 - 18 million years ago

Question 24

Creation of land and fertile soil - How was iceland created?

Answer 24

By a build-up of basalt rock formed from cooling lava on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

Question 25

Creation of land and fertile soil - Why is Iceland still getting bigger?

Answer 25

Iceland is still getting bigger as the North American Plate and the Eurasian Plate continue to separate from each other.

Question 26

Creation of land and fertile soil - Give another reason why Iceland is getting bigger.

Answer 26

Due to the creation of a hotspot from a fissure on the south-east of the island. Lava escaped on to the surface of the island before cooling rapidly.

Question 27

Creation of land and fertile soil - In 1963, a series of volcanic eruptions caused what?

Answer 27

Continuous eruptions led to the creation of a new island, now named Surtsey.

Question 28

Creation of land and fertile soil - Why does Surtsey not have any human settlement?

Answer 28

The island is a protected heritage site.

Question 29

Creation of land and fertile soil - Why are volcanic islands among the most fertile in the world?

Answer 29

As a result of the weathering of volcanic materials such as ash and lava.

Question 30

Creation of land and fertile soil - What does the weathering of volcanic materials provide to the soil?

Answer 30

Nutrient and minerals to the soil, making it extremely fertile for agriculture.

Question 31

Creation of land and fertile soil - Give an example of an area that has benefitted greatly from volcanic deposits.

Answer 31

The Bay of Naples in southern Italy has benefitted greatly from volcanic deposits from Mount Vesuvius.

Question 32

Creation of land and fertile soil - Eruptions from Mount Vesuvius blanketed the Bay of Naples with what?

Answer 32

with thick deposits of tephra, which broke down into fertile soil.

Question 33

Creation of land and fertile soil - As a result of the fertile soil that surrounds Mount Vesuvius, the regions that surround the mountain are what?

Answer 33

Farmed intensively.

Question 34

Geothermal Energy - What does geothermal energy production use to heat water and generate steam?

Answer 34

Heat from hot igneous rocks are used to heat water and generate steam.

Question 35

Geothermal Energy - What can the generation of steam and the heating of water be used to make?

Answer 35

Electricity.

Question 36

Geothermal Energy - Name two countries that use gerthermal energy.

Answer 36

Iceland and New Zealand.

Question 37

What is geothermal energy?

Answer 37

Geothermal energy is heat energy generated and stored in the Earth.