Question

Collect newspaper or magazine articles and news on earthquakes and volcanoes. Prepare an illustrated file on these-how do they happen and how they affect human life.

Answer 1

Answer:

Volcanoes and earthquakes are two natural calamities, which causes great damage to human lives as well as well loss of property. Though they both are natural calamities, they differ in the way they occur in nature.

Explanation:

• Volcanoes can be predicted most of the times, before the volcanic eruption, there are ashes, smokes and several kinds of natural warning. A volcanic eruption consists of hot molten lava which flows from the hilltop, downwards the settlements of human beings, and they are so hot that they simply burn out everything that comes in between its path, which includes house, vehicles, and many useful things which human cannot move fast to a safe area before the arrival of volcanoes.

• Whereas earthquakes are unpredictable and may cause severe damage. A strong earthquake can even break down many buildings, and cause great damage to human life, due to its unpredictable nature, as well as a huge loss of wealth.

Answer 2

Both volcanoes and earthquakes occur because of nature. Earthquakes occur due to huge rock slabs in the crust of earth and mantle's movement and shift. And the volcanoes happen because it hits gasses eruption and the eruption of ash and lava from earth's crust.

These are major effects and may cause destruction hence it results in property losses, human lives, destruction in bridges and buildings, which largely affects human beings.