Volcanoes
Historic Volcanic Eruptions
- Mount Vesuvius
- Mt. Saint Helens
- Mt. Etna
- Mt. Kohala
- Mt. Mauna Kea
The crater from the destruction that mount st helens left.
MAGMA TO LAVA
The way that magma changes to lava is that plates seperate which is a convergent boundary.
HOT SPOTS AND FAULTS
Pictured
here is a
volcanic
eruption in hawaii
Some volcanoes are located at hot spots and other are located at fault lines.
CAUSES OF ERUPTIONS
The buoyancy and the pressure of the gas within the earth’s crust cause the volcano to erupt.
Another cause is from earthquakes
MAGMA
PLATE TECTONICS
Describes the large scale motions
of Earth's lithosphere.
Magma is melted iron and nickel that is in a liquid form, then cools down to form land.