This Island Might Help Us Understand The Origins of Life
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DownloadEarly in the morning on November 14th, 1963, sailors on a fishing boat off Iceland's southern
coast were enjoying a cup of hot coffee when they caught a whiff of something weird.
Sulfur.
They couldn't figure out where the smell was coming from.
The cook wasn't making eggs.
The ship's motor wasn't malfunctioning.
And Magnus hadn’t eaten beans that night.
It wasn't until dawn broke when they saw the source of the smell.
Off in the distance, an ominous column of smoke billowed from the seasurface.
Turns out, it wasn't really smoke, but a volcanic plume of ash and
gas—including sulfur—that emanated from a volcano erupting on the seafloor.
It took less than a day for the puffs of sulfurous smoke to rapidly grow 10 meters above the water,
creating the brand new island that the Iceland Naming Committee called Surtsey.
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Key Vocabulary (17)
Used to refer to the person or people that the speaker is addressing. It is the second-person pronoun used for both singular and plural subjects and objects.
Used to describe a situation or action that continues up to a specific point in time and then stops. It indicates the duration of an event until its conclusion.
Having a high temperature that can be felt or measured. It is used to describe the weather, objects like stoves or coffee, and even the spicy flavor of some foods.
An island is a piece of land that is completely surrounded by water on all sides. It can be located in an ocean, sea, lake, or river and is smaller than a continent.
"The island is important."
A living thing that grows in the earth and has a stem, leaves, and roots. In the context of a home, it often refers to greenery kept in pots for decoration.
"The plant is important."
Lava is the very hot, liquid rock that comes out of a volcano when it erupts. After it cools down and stops moving, it turns into hard, solid stone.
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