Recovering from Eruptions

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Lesson 2.2

• Recovering from Eruptions

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Graphic Overview
Eruption
Mount St. Helens
Volcanic buildup
Destruction
Recovery
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Underground Survivors

• Any plant or animal that lives through a disaster
  is a survivor
• Land and mud in water protected some animals ex.
  Chipmunks and frogs
• Some plants grew after the disaster, like
  fireweed, which attracted animals back to the
  area.

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Distant Colonizers

• All living things that come to an area to eat and
  live are called colonizers
• How colonizers helped revive Mt. St. Helens
• Deer and elk came to eat the fireweed
• they left hoof prints in the ground and droppings
  with seeds in it

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How colonizers helped revive Mt. St. Helens.
continued

• the seeds sprouted into plants
• the plants attracted more animals, insects,
  spiders, and birds
• bacteria rotted the dead trees which enriched the
  soil
• this allowed bigger shrubs and trees to grow so
  animals returned

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Benefits from Below

• Volcanoes give us air, water, and other gases
• help build land
• give us rocks and minerals
• underground steam fields provide electricity

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Pictures
jewelry
Scrubbing and polishing
buildings