2. Could it happen in your neighborhood?

3. Volcano Three Easy Ways to Form a Volcano (if you are Vulcan, Roman god of fire) 1) Subduction Zone volcanoes: form at boundaries of two overriding plates 2) Mid-ocean rift volcanoes: form at site where two oceanic plates are spreading 3) Hot Spot volcanoes: form at an unusually hot, stationary, thermal plume

4. Subduction Zone Volcanoes

5. Oceanic plate Mantle Outer Core Inner Core Trench Rising Magma Continental Plate

6. Mid-ocean Rift Volcanoes

7. Outer Core Inner Core Pacific Ocean Ocean Plates Rising Magma

8. Hot-Spot Volcanoes

9. Outer Core Hawaii Maui Oahu Kauai Pacific Plate Thermal Plume Convection Currents

10. Volcanic Inquisition  How is plate movement connected to volcanoes?  Are all mountains volcanoes?  Why are the Hawaiian Islands in a chain formation?