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Volcano Image #1: Fogo Island, Cape Verde (image #S28-97-055)

NOTE: The four images of volcanoes make a nice sequence, each providing different insights on volcanoes. Many other volcano images are available. Volcanoes also are good targets for your students' future KidSat missions. 

Background for the teacher: This is Fogo Island, Cape Verde. The image is a good starting point for this series of volcanoes. It shows a single volcano, so strikingly present as an island in the ocean. Don't tell your students that it is a volcano. Let them explore the image and figure it out for themselves.

Possible starting points for investigations:

•Is this island flat or does it have mountains? Draw the island in cross-section.
•What is the darker area in the middle of the island?
•Why do clouds from in a circle around the center of the island?
•How big is this island?

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