What is a Volcano??? Volcanoes are often cone-shaped, but they can take other shapes too. They are formed when molten, sticky rock called magma, forces.

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What is a Volcano??? Volcanoes are often cone-shaped, but they can take other shapes too. They are formed when molten, sticky rock called magma, forces its way through a crack in the Earth’s crust. The melted rock that spills out of the crater on the top of the volcano is called lava. The lava destroys everything in its path because it is very, very hot!

Where do volcanoes happen? Most volcanoes are formed on land, but there are some volcanoes that are on the ocean floor. Some of these volcanoes emerge from the water because they are very high. Why does a volcano erupt? A volcano erupts when magma and gases find a way to escape, so they burst to the surface through a vent. An eruption can be quite gentle or very violent.

Types of volcano Volcanoes can be active, dormant or extinct. A volcano is active, or alive, when it erupts often. When a volcano is dormant, or sleeping, it has not erupted for a long time – but it might in the future. A volcano is extinct, or dead, when it hasn’t erupted for at least 100,000 years.

Shield Volcano Shield Volcanoes are made mostly of fluid lava flows It is the calmest of the eruption types Shield volcanoes are the largest volcanoes on Earth but are not very steep The Hawaiian Islands are composed of chains of shield volcanoes.

Shield Volcano

Composite (Stratovolcano) These volcanoes are typically tens of miles across and 10,000 or more feet in height they have moderately steep sides Volcanologists call these "strato-" or composite volcanoes because they consist of layers of solid lava flows mixed with layers of sand- or gravel-like volcanic rock called cinders or volcanic ash. Vesuvius (destroyed Pompeii) & Mount St. Helens (in Washington State)

Composite (Stratovolcano) Mt. Vesuvius as seen in Naples, Italy Safari Montage Movie

Composite (Stratovolcano) Mt. St. Helens

Cinder Cone Volcano These are small volcanoes, usually only about a mile across and up to about a thousand feet high, grainy cinders and almost no lava. They have very steep sides and usually have a small crater on top.

Cinder Cone Volcano

Eruption patterns There are three different levels of eruption: If its easy for the gases to escape, then the eruption is very gentle. However, the lava is very runny and can move very fast. 2. Gas builds up and lumps of rock (‘bombs’) and ash burst out of the volcano. This makes the lava thick and sticky.

This is the fiercest eruption of all because the gases and magma become trapped inside the volcano. This causes a huge explosion, which can be big enough to remove the top of the whole mountain!

Did you know? Mount Kilauea, in Hawaii, is the most active volcano on Earth because it has been erupting since 1983! Pumice stone, which comes from volcanoes, is very light because it contains lot of tiny bubbles. If there are enough bubbles, then pumice stone can float on water! The word, ‘volcano’ comes from the name Vulcan, who was the Roman god of fire.

GLOSSARY Bomb – a lump of rock thrown out in an eruption Crater – a deep hollow at the top of a volcano Crust – The top layer of the Earth Eruption – the release of gases, magma and rock from a volcano Lava – melted rock that flows down the volcano Magma – melted rock inside the Earth Molten – melted, liquid Vent – a crack on the side of a volcano where magma can escape