New Sensors Track Yellowstone Activity
In the app: the whole story at your level, listening, the quiz and the word cards.
The same story at six levels
How the first sentence reads at every level, from A1 to C2.
- A1
Scientists have a new station.
- A2
In early September 2026, scientists started a new station.
- B1
In early September 2026, scientists activated a new hydrothermal monitoring station.
- B2
In early September 2026, Yellowstone Volcano Observatory scientists activated a new hydrothermal monitoring station called YGH.
- C1
Yellowstone National Park contains volatile boiling water systems that can produce unexpected and hazardous steam explosions.
- C2
Beneath the vast expanses of Yellowstone National Park lies a volatile boiling water system, an environment capable of producing unexpected and hazardous steam explosions.
Key words
Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.
- activate
- To make something start working or operating.
- hydrothermal
- Relating to the action of heated water in the earth's crust.
- seismic
- Relating to earthquakes or other vibrations of the earth and its crust.
- detect
- To discover or notice the presence of something that is hidden or hard to see.
- forecast
- To predict or estimate a future event or trend.
- pinpoint
- To find or locate the exact position of something.
Rewritten with AI from facts reported by USGS. Read the original for the full report.