What is Hot Lava?

Hot lava is molten rock that flows out of a volcano.

Imagine baking cookies in your kitchen. You see the warm, gooey chocolate spread on the tray. Now picture that heat, but much, much hotter. Magma is hot rock melted deep underground. When it breaks through the Earth’s crust and spills out, we call it lava.

Think of lava like thick, red-hot syrup. It moves slower than water but faster than honey. It glows bright orange because it is extremely hot, often around 1,000 degrees Celsius. That is hotter than your oven!

Lava flows downhill because gravity pulls it. It is heavy liquid stone. As it moves, it can melt sand into glass or turn wood into ash. It looks scary, but it also builds new land. When the lava cools, it hardens into solid rock. This is how islands like Hawaii were born.

So, lava is just Earth’s internal heat escaping. It is nature’s way of reshaping the world, one slow, fiery river at a time.