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

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The water that gets trapped in the process will start to boil (due to the high temperatures) and begin to melt the rock. The total height of Mauna Kea, below and above sea level, is 33,500 feet (10,210 meters), making it taller than even Mount Everest. The circle-shaped Novarupta Dome that formed during the 1912 eruption of Katmai Volcano, Alaska, measures 800 feet across and 200 feet high.

This chart shows 13 volcanoes on a map of Washington, Oregon, and northern California and time lines for each showing the ages of their eruptions.Located north of Flagstaff, Arizona, Sunset Crater is the youngest in the group of volcanoes in the San Francisco volcanic field. Every one of them is different, some erupt in explosions while others have lava that slowly flows out onto the ground. For the science geek in everyone, Live Science offers a fascinating window into the natural and technological world, delivering comprehensive and compelling news and analysis on everything from dinosaur discoveries, archaeological finds and amazing animals to health, innovation and wearable technology.

The 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo ejected more than 1 cubic mile (5 cubic kilometers) of material into the air and created a column of ash that rose 22 miles (35 km) in the atmosphere.There are about 1,350 potentially active volcanoes worldwide, not counting the volcanoes under the oceans.

This news story looks at the creation of a new volcanic island off the coast of Japan after a volcanic eruption under the sea. Ash, mudflows, and lava flows can devastate communities near volcanoes and cause havoc in areas far downwind, downstream, and downslope. Children could use these glossaries as a reference during reading or writing activities on this topic.

You will find the majority of Russia’s volcanoes along the Kamchatka Peninsula, which is located on the eastern side of the country. Out of these 1,500 volcanoes, about 500 of them have previously erupted and many are located along the Pacific Rime, which is also known as the Ring of Fire (some people place this figure closer to 600). Gaseous emissions from volcanic vents over hundreds of millions of years formed the Earth's earliest oceans and atmosphere, which supplied the ingredients vital to evolve and sustain life. According to USGS or the United States Geological Survey, both the land and submarine volcanoes of our planet can produce roughly 200 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) each year.