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00:02	Yeah , yeah , volcanoes . In this video ,
00:09	we're going to learn about different types of volcanoes .
00:12	The Earth is alive , not alive like you and
00:15	me . But the earth is always moving and changing
00:19	and never stays the same . You may see it
00:21	right before your very eyes , or you may not
00:25	see or feel it happened at all , but it's
00:27	happening right now beneath our feet . The earth is
00:30	changing . Let's explore some of the ways the earth
00:33	changes run for your life . She's gonna blow .
00:38	It's a volcano . A volcano is a fracture or
00:42	opening in the earth's crust , through which magma escapes
00:46	deep in the bowels of the earth . Beneath the
00:48	crusts are vast chambers of molten liquid rock we call
00:52	magma . Magma can slowly cool and become hardened ,
00:57	or magma with trapped gases can flow and feed a
01:01	volcano and rise to the surface of the earth .
01:04	When magma reaches the surface , it becomes lava .
01:08	A volcano may be active or a volcano may be
01:12	dormant , which means that it's only sleeping and may
01:16	someday erupt . Or a volcano may be extinct ,
01:19	which means that it was once active but will probably
01:22	never erupt again . Let's explore three types of volcanoes
01:27	millions of years ago , the islands of Hawaii emerged
01:31	from the sea powered by erupting volcanoes . The formation
01:37	of the islands of Hawaii are examples of shield volcanoes
01:41	. Some of these volcanoes are active and continue to
01:44	erupt . Other volcanoes have been dormant for a million
01:48	years . These volcanoes are massive in area and have
01:52	gradual , sloping sides . The eruptions are like fountains
01:56	and love of flows are very liquid . The lawyer
01:59	, the volcano south of the Big Island of Hawaii
02:03	, is one actively erupting volcano under the sea Lawyer
02:06	. He is a seamount rising 10,000 ft from the
02:10	floor of the Pacific Ocean . And as it continues
02:13	to erupt , molten lava it one day will become
02:16	an island all its own in about 100,000 years .
02:20	Shield volcanoes are not as explosive as cinder cone volcanoes
02:25	. A cinder cone volcano has straight , steep sides
02:30	. In 1943 senior Pulido was working in his cornfield
02:34	near the village of Parry Cotinine , Mexico . Polledo
02:38	tells the story that as he and his family were
02:40	working in the field , that the earth began to
02:43	tremble and shake , and right before his very eyes
02:47	, the ground swelled to over 6 ft , a
02:50	fissure opened and grey ash and smoke poured into the
02:55	air and the sound of a terrible hiss and the
02:58	horrible smell of sulfur through the thick smoke . Polito
03:01	could not find his family . He went back to
03:04	the village and discovered they had arrived there safe and
03:06	sound . Through the days and weeks and years that
03:09	followed , the volcano would continue to grow to over
03:13	1300 ft high or 396.24 m , spewing hot smoke
03:21	and ash into the air . Everyone had to be
03:24	evacuated and find another home as thick , Slow moving
03:28	lava would advance to the villages of parachuting and San
03:32	Juan , which were destroyed . Can you imagine how
03:35	awful that would be ? The parachuting volcano has been
03:39	very important to scientists as they have seen the birth
03:43	and rise of a volcano and watch it become dormant
03:47	. And those cinder cone volcano may be terrible .
03:50	It is no match for the spectacle of a volcano
03:53	, which can be far more powerful , far more
03:56	terrible , far more frightening and more explosive . Of
04:01	course , we are talking about the strata volcano ,
04:06	A strata volcano is characterized by gentle lower slopes ,
04:11	gradually increasing too steep upper slopes . They are constructed
04:16	of layers of hardened lava and volcanic ash and pomace
04:20	strata . Volcanoes are known to have violent eruptions ,
04:23	expelling fiery love of fragments through the air . Like
04:27	bombs , toxic gases fill the air , and massive
04:30	plumes of ash clouds carry vast distances , making aviation
04:35	travel impossible . These volcanoes are dangerous and deadly ,
04:39	and the lava from these volcanoes flow slowly . It
04:42	covers and burns and destroys everything in its path .
04:45	In the Cascade Mountain range of southwest Washington state ,
04:49	there rises many beautiful , snow covered peaks . Some
04:52	of them are volcanoes . One of these volcanic mounts
04:56	is known as Mount ST Helens . It was no
04:59	secret that Mount ST Helens had been an active volcano
05:03	for hundreds , maybe thousands of years , and volcanologists
05:07	scientists who study volcanoes had been studying ST Helens with
05:12	their equipment , watching and waiting for another perhaps major
05:15	eruption . It was possible that ST Helens would not
05:18	erupt in their lifetime . Even with fancy equipment ,
05:22	these things are difficult to predict . Then came the
05:24	spring of 1980 . For months , tremors and earthquakes
05:28	shook the ground on the north face of Mount ST
05:32	Helens , a bulge began to form Vulcanologist David A
05:37	. Johnston was watching and measuring the growth of the
05:40	Bulge with his lasers . On May 18th , 1980
05:45	David called out over the radio . This is it
05:48	. This is it . The caldera blew with supersonic
05:52	fury . Everything in the path of this massive eruption
05:56	was wiped out for eight miles . David A .
06:00	Johnston was camped right in the path of the most
06:03	destructive volcanic eruption in known US history . 250 homes
06:09	. Railways , bridges , highways , all gone .
06:13	Could Mount ST Helens erupt again ? Will you wait
06:16	and see ? In the world , there are nearly
06:20	1500 potentially active volcanoes . 169 are in the United
06:26	States . Is there one near you ? Many volcanoes
06:30	are located along the Pacific Rim , an area that
06:34	reaches along South and North America along the Illusion islands
06:38	of Alaska , down the islands of Japan and the
06:41	Philippines , Indonesia , New Zealand and the South Pacific
06:46	. This path in the Pacific Ocean is known as
06:49	the Ring of Fire . For millions of years ,
06:53	our earth has been alive with erupting volcanoes in addition
06:57	to those we've explored and among the most frightening and
07:01	terribly destructive are Mount Vesuvius of Pompeii , Krakatoa in
07:06	Indonesia and the volcanic complex in Iceland and deep underneath
07:13	. Yellowstone National Park lies enormous chambers of molten magma
07:18	, which one day may find its way to the
07:20	surface and become the most massive super volcano ever .
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Our Volcanoes for Kids video is a fun and engaging way to introduce volcanoes to children. In this video kids will learn all about volcanoes and take away some fun interesting facts everyone should know. We learn what a volcano is, the difference between Magma and Lava, the different types of volcanoes, where they located, and much much more! We hope you enjoy our volcanoes for kids video.

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