Extreme Volcanoes: video worksheets, differentiated.

Please ensure you can access the video before you get this resource. The film uses spectacular volcanoes to showcase the work, lives, and methods of vulcanologists: Olympus Mons on Mars; ice volcanoes in the outer solar system; 400 volcanoes on Io; Enceladus’ many volcanoes; microbial activity at Erebus on Antarctica – could there be microbes on extra-terrestrial volcanoes? Kawah Ijen in Java - the world’s largest hyper-acidic lake; Fagradalsfjall on Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula; Nyiragongo in DRC; Mount Etna; Vanuatu’s Marum and Benbow; OI Doinyo Lengai in Tanzania, its effect on wildebeest migration.

Find the film by searching YouTube’s BBC Earth Science channel for “Our Universe’s Most Volatile Volcanoes | Volcanic | BBC Earth Science”.

16 questions for the 58-min film. Differentiated! Both versions look similar, but “B” version has subtle clues. Questions right up to the end, no slack time. Good subtitles – scripted, not autogenerated spiel. Answer sheet. Very easy to mark. .doc and .pdf of all sheets, link to film on all sheets.