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🌋 Volcanoes

A mountain that can puff smoke and pour hot, glowing rock!

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~5 min

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🔬 Science

subject

Ages 3–5

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What you’ll learn

Describe a volcano as a mountain that erupts hot lava from melted rock deep in the Earth.A volcano is a mountain with an opening on top. Deep inside, hot rock melts into magma. When a volcano erupts, lava, ash, and smoke come out, and cooled lava makes new land.

Questions this course answers

What is the hot melted rock that flows from a volcano?

Hot melted rock that flows out of a volcano is called lava.

How does a volcano feel deep inside?

Deep inside the Earth it is so hot that rock melts into magma.

Grounded in trusted sources

NASA Space Place, "What Is a Volcano?", spaceplace.nasa.gov/volcanoes2/en
Britannica Kids, "volcano", kids.britannica.com/kids/article/volcano/353902
National Geographic Kids, "Volcano facts and photos", kids.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/volcano

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