100 Facts Volcanoes – Bitesized Facts & Awesome Images to Support KS2 Learning

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Children could use these glossaries as a reference during reading or writing activities on this topic. This connection to fresh magma allows the volcano to erupt over and over again in the same location. Shield volcanoes build up slowly by the growth of thousands of lava flows that spread widely over great distances, and then cool as thin sheets. The study of volcanoes and their products is known as volcanology, but these phenomena are not the realm of any single scientific discipline. Interestingly and not known to many, you can set up a rare travel tour and swim in the viridian green water of “Taal Volcano’s mouth.

We aim to empower and inspire our readers with the tools needed to understand the world and appreciate its everyday awe. An eruption occurs when pressure from gases and the molten lava rock becomes strong enough to cause an explosion. This phenomenon obscures the sun and raises the Earth’s albedo, the measure of the diffuse reflection of solar radiation from the ground back to the space of incidence.

Once you’ve read the story, challenge children with the comprehension questions in this Resource Pack to make sure they’ve understood the news story clearly. Some of the plans and arguably the most promising include depressurization of the magma chamber and increasing the opening of the vent to reduce the energy of a potential eruption. They can cause a lot of damage and destroy buildings, kill and injure people, destroy forests, ruin crops, cause illness, and poison lakes and rivers. In other cases, entrapped gases tear the magma into shreds and hurl viscous clots of lava into the air.

A volcanic eruption can send ash high into the air, sometimes over 17 miles above the Earth’s surface. One can say, for example, that large lava flows erupt from Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii, referring here to the vent; but one can also say that Mauna Loa is a gently sloping volcano of great size, the reference in this case being to the landform. Unfortunately, up to this day, there are no successful developments, though theories and other plans are always constant. The largest volcanic blast of the 20th century was the eruption of Novarupta one of a chain of volcanoes on the Alaska Peninsula, part of the Pacific Ring of Fire in 1912.As late as 1768, the first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica gave voice to a common misconception by defining volcanoes as “burning mountains, which probably are made up of sulphur and some other matter proper to ferment with it, and take fire. With stunning photographs and beautiful illustrations, this fun-filled book is sure to challenge young readers and prepare them for academic success. Ash, tiny pieces of tephra the thickness of a strand of hair, may be carried by the wind only to fall to the ground many miles away.