Why Do Volcanoes Erupt?

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1. A volcano erupts like when you shake up a bottle of soda and then open it, fizz!
2. Imagine lava inside the Earth as molten rock in a giant pressure cooker, when it bursts, that’s an eruption!
3. The ground cracks open like a cake pan after too much heat, lava flows out.

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See also

• Why Do Volcanoes Sometimes Erupt Quietly?
• Why Do Volcanoes Sometimes Explode in a Violent Eruption?
• What Makes a ‘Volcano’ Erupt So Violently?
• How Does The Earth's crust: tectonic plate movement, volcanoes, tsunami Work?
• How Does The Types of Volcanic Eruptions; A Volcanologist's Guide Work?

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