Volcano Discovery

HOW VOLCANOES ARE MADE
Volcanoes are formed by activity under the earth’s crust, more specifically plate tectonics. When they rub together they can create earthquakes, volcanoes, and a lot of other natural disasters.

HOW VOLCANOES EXPLODE
Volcanoes explode because under the earth’s crust there are plates that rub together to form volcanoes when it builds up so much pressure that it explodes.

WHAT VOLCANOES EXPLODE
Volcanoes you would think explode magma, but they explode a lot more than that. Usually they blast out ash, smoke, and rocks. Most of the time they blast out more of that stuff than magma. Sometimes they burst out toxic gas.

THE RING OF FIRE
The ring of fire is sort of a ring but it doesn’t connect. Let’s just call it a ring. In Ecuador there are enough volcanoes to be in the ring of fire. The Galapagos also has many volcanoes but it’s just a hotspot.

VOLCANOES IN ECUADOR
The biggest volcano in South America is Chimborazo, which is in Ecuador. But the biggest active volcano is Cotopaxi. In the past 250 years, Cotopaxi has exploded 50 times. There are 30 volcanoes in the mainland of Ecuador and 14 in the Galapagos. In Quito we live on the slopes of a volcano called Pichincha. There are a lot other volcanoes like Troublemaker, Cayambe, and don’t forget about Quilotoa.

COTOPAXI VOLCANO
Cotopaxi, a volcano in Ecuador, is 19,347 feet (5,897 meters). Cotopaxi is the one that I modeled for my science project. Almost half of it is covered in snow. Cotopaxi is not in Quito, it’s in Latacunga a small town an hour and a half away from Quito. We tried to visit but the rain sent us home

SUMMARY
Volcanoes are giant and powerful natural creations. I loved learning about volcanoes so close and so far, so big and so tall.

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Cotopaxi: Our friendly nearby volcano