This is the powerpoint for the vocabulary words related to the Reading Street Story, Volcanoes: Nature's Incredible Fireworks

1. Volcanoes
Nature’s Incredible
Fireworks
By: David L. Harrison
Genre: Expository
nonfiction:
Gives facts and information

2. Words to know
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beneath
buried
chimney
earthquakes
fireworks
force
trembles
volcanoes

3. Beneath
• in a lower place; under; below

4. Buried
• Covered up; hidden

5. Chimney
• A tall, hollow column, usually
made of brick, to carry away
smoke from a fireplace or
furnace

6. Earthquakes
• Violent shaking or shifting motion
of the ground caused by the sudden
movement of rock far beneath
Earth’s surface

7. Fireworks
• Firecrackers and other things
that make a loud noise or go up
high in the air and burst in a
shower of stars and sparks

8. Force
• Power; strength

9. Trembles
• Moves with a quick shaking
motion

10. Volcanoes
• Hills or mountains built up by
lava and ash around an opening
in Earth’s crust

11. Let’s
Practice!

12. Many places in the
world have
, or a
violent shaking of the
ground.

13. Earthquakes

14. The
of an earthquake
is so powerful that tall
buildings sometimes fall
to the ground.

15. Force

16. The
had lots and
lots of lava flowing
from its opening.

17. Volcano

18. During an earthquake
the ground
, or
shakes very quickly.

19. Trembles

20. I saw smoke coming
from the
at the
top of their house.
They must have a fire
in the fireplace.

21. Chimney

22. There are plates that
shift way down
the Earth’s surface
that cause an
earthquake to
happen.

23. Beneath

24. The
on the fourth
of July were very
colorful in the night
sky.

25. Fireworks

26. The car was
in the
snow after the
terrible blizzard we
had yesterday.

27. Buried