The volcanoes

The volcanoes

There are three types of volcanoes:-Active volcanoes

-Dormant volcanoes-Extinct volcanoes

The actives volcanoes

• They are called actives volcanoes, because they are erupted in the past and they are erupt again.

• Kilauea in Hawaii is the more active volcano in the world.

Dormants volcanoes

• There are also dormant volcanoes .These volcanoes are sleeping.They are dangerous too.They can wake up and erupt again.

Extinct volcanoes

Extinct volcanoes are volcanoes we think can’t erupt again. But sometimes they are wake up!

• Anatahan is an island in the Pacific Ocean. Scientists believed the volcano on the island was extinct but on 11th may 2003 it erupted.

Parts of a volcano

• Magma chamber• Vent• Crater cone• Ash and gas cloud• Lava

Pompeii

• Vesuvius is an extinct volcano in Italy.It is a very famous volcano because there was a terrible eruption in 79 A.D. We know about there eruption from very old letters.

• When Vesuvius erupted there was a lot of ash. Ge ash coverd all the city of Pompeii. Only the roofs of thehouses were not covered. Pompeii was a lost city.

By: Eduard Amigó, Gerard Bacardí and Marina Pujadas