Geysir
Nature
The hot spring that gave every geyser its name.
In a valley in Iceland the ground steams and bubbles. One spring here, Geysir, used to shoot boiling water 70 metres into the air. The word geyser, in almost every language, comes from its name.
Geysir itself now sleeps most of the time. Its neighbour Strokkur does the work: every five to ten minutes it throws a column of water high into the air.
- Geysir once reached
- 70 m
- between Strokkur's eruptions
- 5-10 min
- the water is hot
- 100 °C
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Just before Strokkur erupts, the water bulges up into a blue dome.
- 2
Geysir means gusher in Icelandic.
- 3
Icelanders use the same heat from under the ground to warm their houses.
Question 1 of 2
Where does the word geyser come from?
- Loch NessA deep, dark lake in Scotland, and maybe a monster.
- Giant's CausewayForty thousand stone columns on the coast of Northern Ireland, most of them six-sided.
- GeirangerfjordA narrow arm of the sea between walls of rock in Norway.
- Cliffs of MoherWhere Ireland stops, straight down into the ocean.
It is in Iceland.
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