Imagine that you’re a geologist. This means that you study rocks, minerals, and the natural processes that happen beneath the Earth’s surface. You are sent to study this volcano in Hawaii. You’ll have to learn about the volcano, why it erupts, and when it erupts. You will also have to learn about how the volcano affects the people, plants, and animals that live nearby. Which of the six essential elements of geography would you be using? Explain your answer in at least three sentences.

During eruption, volcanoes emit a mixture of gases and particles in the air. Ash particles and gases such as sulfur dioxide have a cooling effect because they reflect the sunlight far away from the earth. A gas like carbon dioxide has a greenhouse effect and heats the earth. Volcanic eruptions also throw out melt walls that form new walls on the surface of the earth and change its configuration, and together with the ash particles change the mineral composition of the soil. Particles of volcanic eruption affect the composition and quality of water, which, through evaporation, deliver this chemical composition with it and affect the atmosphere, which again through the precipitation affects the soil. But also those influences affecting the atmosphere also affect climate change. The changed mineral structure of the soil, together with such altered chemical composition of water and precipitation affects the plants. Animals feeding such plants inhale such air, they also feel these effects, and this reflects on the quality of milk, meat, food in general, which naturally affects people. The composition of the soil changes over time, which affects the amount of yield, maybe even the change in cultivated crops may occur.

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