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//*Note: This paper was written by Nehemiah in Kelly Fullerton's 5th grade class. http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=23283// 

Volcanoes
 WHAT IS A VOLCANO?

A volcano is a mountain or hill formed around a crack in the planets crust. At that crack molten stone and hot matter is forced out. The stone in the mantle is hot enough to melt but is solid because of all the pressure. There are more than one kind of volcano There is more than one kind of volcano there is strato, shield, and cinder cone. They all look ,and erupt different.

HOW A VOLCANO ERUPTS

There're gas bubbles in the magma that get bigger and bigger until they cant be held back any longer thats when it erupts. The magma that comes out of the volcano is called lava. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A VOLCANO ERUPTS?

In an explosive eruption pieces of rock that are called lava pyroclasts fly out. Magma that flows out is called lava. Lava is usually slow but sometimes its fast even about 35 mph. Lava is very destructive. It could destroy a whole entire city, covering it in ash and drowning it in lava.

THE THREE DIFFERENT TYPES OF VOLCANOES

There are three different types of volcanoes they all look and erupt differently. Composite volcanoes are cone shaped and are built by layers of pyroclasts. Shield volcanoes are formed from quieter eruptions. Cinder cone volcanoes are made by explosive eruptions. Those are the three different types of volcanoes.

THE RING OF FIRE

The Ring of Fire is a place in the world were volcanoes are abundant and alive.

A lot of earth's volcanoes are in the Ring of Fire. Some of them are dormant and some are very active erupting more regularly. Did you know volcanoes are under water and they build up layers of hard layers of lava when they erupt. Eventually building an island!