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Middles worked hard on their Volcano Projects

Middle School Research by Sienna Light and Mackenzie Kerr

The Middle School have been doing research about volcanoes to create an InfoGraph. We have been practicing skimming and scanning to find facts, some of the facts people discovered are fascinating!

There are more than 500 active volcanoes right now WOW! That's a lot of volcanoes!
Magma is hotter than lava
Molten rock is below the surface of the earth
The danger area around a volcano covers about a 20mile radius
Liquid rock is called magma when it is under the earth’s surface and called lava once it leaves the volcano
There are 3 major kinds of volcanoes active , dormant , extinct
The oldest volcano is not on earth
Volcanoes release water for us to drink
Volcanoes basically always cause destruction
76% of volcanoes one earth are found in a area in the pacific ocean known as the the ring of fire
Ash from volcanoes can spark lightning
Volcanoes created Hawaii
The heat inside an active volcano is 1,200 degrees c. Water boils at 100 degrees celsius! Wow!
Volcano is about 350,000 years old
Yellowstone super volcano can destroy the world (if it erupted
Ash from volcanoes has a chance to spark lighting blue lava spewing volcano
Volcanoes mostly appear at the edge of tectonic plates which are the plates that connect the earth together
The tallest volcano in the solar system is not on the earth it is on mars! It is called Olympus Mons