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A volcano is an opening in the Earth where hot, liquid rock comes out called lava. I.E. Iceland is sitting on one of the openings.

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3 A volcano is an opening in the Earth where hot, liquid rock comes out called lava. I.E. Iceland is sitting on one of the openings.

4 The parts of a volcano are vent, cone, flanks, pipe, feeder pipe, dike,magma chamber and ash

5 The tectonic plates move apart. The gas and steam inside the magma makes the lava shoot out.

6 A MUDSLIDE A LANDSLIDE I.E. After a volcano erupts, its vent is blocked by a plug of magma this lets rainwater collect in the crater, forming a lake.

7 In one day 40 volcanoes could erupt. The word volcano comes from the roman god of fire Vulcan. When St. Helens erupted it blew a chunk out of its self. The biggest volcano in the world is in Hawaii. There are over 1,500 volcanoes that we know of.

8 video http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/earth/natural _disasters/volcano#p00gtrzwhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/science/earth/natural _disasters/volcano#p00gtrzw

9 Pompeii disaster Long ago in Pompeii the people lived alongside a volcano called Vesuvius then one day BOOM! It erupted the city was covered in ash it was chaos many people that day died. And that was the Pompeii disaster.

10 Thank you for watching. Do you have any questions?


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