Volcanoes
Volcanoes are shaped like mountains, but they eject lava due to tectonic activities beneath the Earth's surface. This can result in eruptions, depending on the intensity and the type of volcano, and cause damage.
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To make a volcano model you need... red food coloring baking soda vinegar brown plaster plastic bottle cardboard box funnelTo...
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Iceland sits on a volcanic hotspot in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and has relatively frequent eruptions, though most occur in sparsely...
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Its on the border of eurasian, pacific and indo-australian plates
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They are dormant volcanoes.
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Convergent; the Cascade Range is a volcano/mountain, which is caused from a convergent plate boundaryI had the same question for...
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All the time, Mount Yasur is classed as a Strombolian Volcano. This means it is continually erupting, nothing major, just ash,...
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Magma, a thick substance composed of liquid rock, crystals, and dissolved gas is found inside of active volcanoes. When this...
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It depends. The energy of motion is kinetic energy. Plants use solar energy, but they convert it to chemical energy. Gravity...
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Lateral movements of diverging plates.
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The mid Atlantic ridge is the most well known divergent plate boundary. The are divergent plate boundaries in every ocean. A...
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There are three types of volcanoes because each volcano is different. A shield volcano is a broader volcano that erupts lava at...
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Eyjafjallajökull is the Iceland volcano that been causing all the fuss recently. It's located on the southern shore of this...
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The Convergent boundary forms a subduction zone. When the heavier plate reaches 100km the water is released from the submerged...
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Mt Fuji latitude is 35.3624000549
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No Elara is too cold for the heat of a volcano
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no lava is a liquid that when cooled forms extrusive igneous rock
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I guess they just make a chasm in the ground.
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This will form a series of tensile features. Initially, normal faulting will occur, then horst and graben structures will form...
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Loud Erupt:The magma is really thickIt is cooler lavaMore siliciaQuiet Erupt:ThinHotter lavalow silica
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it has basaltic magma.
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Yes, the are. I'm pretty sure i saw that in a book somewhere.
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Many will assume that lava is hotter. It may be hard to believe, but fire can generally get hotter. I guess that lava may be seen...
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It depends on the pressure, amount of magma, whether it's on a fault line, and how long convection has been going on to determine...
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I think It is because it feels like it and so.
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Kilauea and Mona Loa.
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Crater Lake National Park located in Mount Mazama in Oregon.
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Correct.Although they are based on the same element (carbon) they have vastly different structures and atomic arrangements,...
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According to scientists, as Iceland's glaciers thin because of the changing global climate, their weight upon the island's...
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Iceland is on a constructive (a.k.a divergent) plate boundary. This means that the tectonic plates move apart, creating a gap for...
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The name of the volcano that erupted in Iceland is Eyjafjallajökull.
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The volcanic ash contains fluoride, which is poisonous. Animals, such as cattle and horses, eat the ash that has settled on the...
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Divergent plate boundary.
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mount fuego is an active Composute volcano.
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Yes it is high in silica because composite volcanoes are known for being explosive. Composite volcanoes, sometimes referred to...
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Its located in Ambato,Ecuador.ps: its true I'm from Ecuador
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If you are talking about the one that's causing all the airport trouble, then its Eyjafjallajokull in Iceland.
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The temperature in an active volcano is between 700 °C to 1,500 °C, because when a volcano is dormant or becomes inactive the...
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taal volcano is in the Philippines and it is 13 m tall and 67 m wide rock on peeep
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Smoke can rise from the volcano, tremors in the earth may be felt, animals will sense a disturbance and sometimes the volcano may...
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Mt St Helens is located in two hemispheres: the northern and the western.
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there were 11 deaths
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Etna, Vesuvius, Stromboli
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plate tectonics cause earthquakes by clashing together. volcanoes are made by the lava pushing up.
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Most places with active volcanoes nearby have warning systems and evacuation plans, however some places (for example Mt. Vesuvius...
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When the plates under the earths crust colide and go one on top of each other,it starts the volcano on its first stage of a...
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It is the southern-most active volcano on earth.
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yes actually it is. The names Helen, Eileen, Elena, and Helena all have the same meaning- "light"
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This is known as lava.
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Volcanic ash might be said to be the cause of or the precursor to aviation agony. Agony is generally the suffering on a large...
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You should ideally build it away from volcanoes and fault lines. You should build it out of steel, and/or concrete, and/or...
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Igneous rock is formed from magma/lava. So yes
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No, they can form underwater as well. There are plenty of islands that started out as submerged volcanoes.
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During the night of 9th June 1886, after a series of constant quakes since midnight, a violent eruption occurred near the...
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A hot spot can occur away from the edge of a tectonic plate, while subduction zones are where two tectonic plates meet, causing...
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After a volcano has quieted down, the land and soil around it are rich in plant nutrients, making it excellent for growing crops,...
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Inside a volcano is molten rock. When there is too much pressure and heat in that volcano, the rock melts and becomes magma, when...
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Try Google Earth Gallery in related link below and search for 'volcano'.
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There are many areas around the world where volcanoes reside. Most volcanoes are near plate boundaries (see "what are tectonic...
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the two tectonic plates move away from each other. very occasionally the tectonic plates will move together and hi. this causes...
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Well, it's not so much that you need energy for plate tectonics. Oh, never mind. You see, the earth is not all in one piece, on...
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Pahoehoe lava.
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They are called a Plate Boundaries :)
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All volcanoes do have lava (magma), mostly in their young and early (ie, active) stages.
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Not necessarily, some of the most destructive earthquakes happen away from fautlines as people do not have the necessary...
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An estimate of the mass of an "average" continental lithospheric plate is 40.7x1021 kg or forty sextillion, seven hundred...
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The "Ring Of Fire" is associated with a nearly continuous series of oceanic trenches, volcanic arcs, and volcanic belts and/or...
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Lava domes, composite cones , volcanic islands.
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I don't know for certain, but if you plan on visiting, plan on paying. Most tourist attractions have an entrance fee. The revenue...
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As of 27/08/10 it hasn't. Still there are a few more hot months ahead of us so time will tell...
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Crystals begin to form which as the magma temperature falls. These crystals vary in size depending on the rate of cooling....
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No. Currents in the air and oceans are caused by the heat from the sun.
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About 12000 miles from London and about 60 miles from Tokyo.
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The pacific plate moves towards the northwest. the plate moves the older volcanoes with it and so the hot spot produces new...
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Succession
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if the ground is hot and there is smoke in the air
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Mount Fuji is near the geographic center of Japan, southwest of Tokyo. It spans the Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures and, at...
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Scientists use seismograghs, tiltmeters, geodimeters and other stuff. Sorry I dont know any other answers. Love Lucy.xxx
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Its starts off gently rising, smooth-sloped volcanic dome formed from very fluid (low viscosity) basaltic lava typical of...
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we don't it is only a theroy, since we have never been under the earth's crust we could say there is a big fat guy under there,...
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Yes, it can. If you inhale the ash, you'll also inhale volcanic gases (mainly steam, carbon dioxide and sulphur dioxide) which...
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