Volcanoes in the Philippines

Objective:

Classify volcanoes as active or inactive

Materials:

• Philippine map
• colored pens
• triangle ruler

Procedure:

1. Using the Philippine map (fig. 3), plot the location of the following volcanoes. Assign colors for the volcanoes. Indicate this in the legend.

Table 1. List of some volcanoes in the Philippines

Legend:

Q1. Are all the volcanoes found in the same location?

Q2. Which of the volcanoes had the most number of eruptions? least number of eruptions? no record of eruption?

Q3. How will you classify the volcanoes that have records of eruptions?

Q4. How will you classify volcanoes with no record of eruption?

Q5. In your own words, differentiate an active volcano from an inactive one.

Now that you have differentiated an active volcano from an inactive one, the next question could be: what causes the volcanoes to erupt? Let’s find out in the next activity.