Dante's Peak Fact vs Fiction

Hot springs can change temperature due to increased volcanic activity.

• true

• false

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What was incorrect about this scene from the movie?

• the color of the lava is all wrong

• that type of lava is not associated with the volcanoes in that area

• there is never that much lava in one location

Which of the following situations in the movie was the worst, scientifically speaking?

• driving a truck across the lava

• the shape of the volcano

• the mudflow destroying the bridge

• the amount of ash that fell from the sky

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People can be killed from rocks that are ejected during a volcanic eruption

• true

• false

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Which of the following is something that was unreasonably shown in the movie?

• trees dying to an increase in volcanic gasses

• people who were killed by rapidly heating of the hot spring

• the acidity (pH) of water near a volcano changing somewhat

• the pyroclastic flow destroying buildings

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Earthquakes are associated with volcanic eruptions.

• true

• false

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Which of these statements is not true about volcanic eruptions?

• they produce lots of lightning

• the earthquakes are strong enough to destroy buildings

• it is unsafe to fly aircraft near a volcanic eruption

• the heat can melt snow caps and create a dangerous mudflow

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The movie was filmed in _____, which is scientifically accurate because there are really volcanoes like this in that part of the country

• Alaska

• Hawaii

• Idaho

• Wyoming

Which of the statements is something that was said in the movie that is very true about volcanoes?

• they only erupt in summer

• the volcano was not extinct, only dormant

• that the heat from the volcano could evaporate the water supply

• that this volcano would erupt very rare and deadly white lava

Which of the following is somehting that was shown correctly about volcanoes?

• setting up instruments like seismometers to monitor the volcano

• building a special type of rock slide fence for pyroclastic flows

• lowering reservoir levels to prevent flooding

• reom0ving snow from the slope to prevent lahars

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