Volcanoes

Volcanoes are like sleeping giants.  After years - even - centuries-of rest, they awake.  They erupt.  Some powerful eruptions blow tops off mountains, flatten forests, and dam up rivers.  Some eruptions have killed tens of thousands of people.  A few have have buried cities, while others have buried mountains.  Some big eruptions have even changed the world's weather for years.

Volcanoes also shape the earth.  They build islands, mountains, plains, lakes, and the ocean floor.

Despite the dangers of active volcanoes, people often liver near them.  Farmers like the soil volcanoes create.  Some of our favorite foods - like chocolate- come from plants that grow best in volcanic soil.  Volcanoes also contain valuable ores and metals like the silver dentists use for fillings in our teeth.

Come discover volcanoes from the inside out-on land, under seas, and in outer space.
(Kids Dscover- Volcanoes: Pg. 2 Copyright 1999)