This document provides information about different types of volcanoes through examples of famous volcanoes around the world. It discusses how volcanoes work internally and the three main types: active, dormant and extinct. Examples discussed include Vesuvius and the buried city of Pompeii, underwater volcanoes making up two thirds of the world's total, and Mount St. Helens whose 1980 eruption caused its height to decrease by 400 meters. Famous volcanoes Krakatoa, Teide, and Etna are also summarized briefly.

2. ·3-A volcano is...
·4-Inside a volcano
·5-Types of volcanoes
·6-A story from the past
·7-Volcanoes under the sea
·8- Mout s.t helens
·9-Krakatoa
·10-Teide
·11-Etna

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...A volcano is a mountain. Most of the
time, it looks like any other mountain, but
sometimes it shoots out gas, ash and
burning rock. This is called an eruption.

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Inside every volcano there is a deep hole.
It goes deep down inside the Earth. It is so
hot there that some of the rocks melts.

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There are three types of volcanoes: active volcanoes,
dormant volcanoes and extint volcanoes.
-Active volcanoes: They erupted in the past and they can
erupt again.
-Dormant volcanoes: These volcanoes are sleeping. There
are dangerous too.
-Extinct volcanoes: Extinct volcanoes are volcanoes we think
can't erupt again.

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Vesuvius is an extint volcano in Italy. It is
a very famous volcano. One afternoon in
79 a.d. People from Pompeii heard a
loud noise. It was Vesuvius. All the
people started running out of their
houses. But the cloud of ash covered
Pompeii. Thousands of people died.
People forgot about Pompeii for 1,500
years. One year some people started
digging and they found Pompeii. They
found streets, shops and houses.

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There are lots of volcanoes under the sea. They are two thirds
of the world active volcanoes. The Galapagos are volcanic
islands.They are near the coast of Ecuador. There are 13 big
island and 6 smaller islands. There are still eruptions in the
Galapagos Islands
.Mauna loa in hawaii is bigger than any other volcano in the
world.

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It's in Washington, U.S.A.
It's an active volcano.
The most important eruption was in 1980. There was an
earthquake. At the beginin it was 2,950 m and at the
end 2,550m high !

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It's in Indonesia.
It's an active volcano.
The most important eruption was in 1883.
There were 36,417 people dead.
There were lots of tsunamies too.

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Teide is a volcano in Canary Islands
(Spain).
It's an active volcano.
The last eruption was in 1909.
A lot of tourists visit this volcano
every year.

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Etna is a volcano is Sicily, (Italy). It's an active
Volcano. Mount Etna erupts every few years, the
biggest eruptions were in 2002-2003.
The huge column of ash could be seen from the
space and Lybia.