Volcanoes-Mountains of Fire

 What is a volcano?

 When do volcanoes erupt?

 Types of volcanoes.

 Types of eruptions.

 What happens when they erupt?

Special volcanoes

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 Glossary of terms

 

What is a Volcano?


The Earth is composed of many layers, roughly divided into three mega-layers
The core
The mantle
The outer crust


We live on the rigid outer crust of the Earth.
Directly under the outer crust is the mantle, the largest layer of the earth. The mantle is extremely hot and most of its part are solid.
However the mantle material does melt, forming magma that makes through the outer crust known as the volcanic eruption

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