O.M.G. Volcanoes! weekly post!!!!!

So since my current event was about a volcano I thought I would keep this nice little theme going. So, I'm going to tell you alllllll about volcanoes! :D Hooray!

Basically, a volcano is an opening or a giant rupture in the earth's crust and this allows all

types of fun stuff like ash, and smoke, and lava/magma to escape from it. Volcanoes form where tectonic plates have diverged or converged or where the earth's crust stretches or thins out. Volcanoes aren't always just conical mountains that spew lava and poisonous gases from the top. There are many more types of exciting volcanoes that are all special and unique! Volcanoes can be mountainous, on giant plateaus, or even underwater!

http://volcano.oregonstate.edu/kids/kurtz_stories/RockysRoots.html

^^^^^^^^^^^^ that's a story about how volcanoes formed with rock adventures!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!^^^^^^^^^^^(actually quite amusing)

This is how you say volcano in Finnish: tulivuori.

This is how you say volcano in Hawaiian: lua pele

This is how you say volcano in Zulu: intabomlilo.

This is how you say volcano in Welsh: llosgfynydd and folcano

Wanna know how to make a volcano model????

I bet you do!

According to this website, all you have to do is take a bucket of small pebbles and pour out the bucket onto the ground and shape them into a cone! Some volcanoes are made out of cinder that's the same size as small pebbles. Apparently this is pretty accurate.

Here are some fun volcano vocab words!

Vulcan: roman god of fire who volcanoes are named after.

Seamount: a submarine volcano.

Kipuka: an area surrounded by a lava flow.

Ejecta: Material that is thrown out by a volcano, including pyroclastic material and lava bombs.

Cirque: A steep-walled horseshoe-shaped recess high on a mountain that is formed by glacial erosion.

Source:

http://volcano.oregonstate.edu/