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How Do Volcanoes Erupt?
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The StoryBots learn about the layers of the Earth and how volcanoes erupt!

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the volcano and
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the answer lies with the other three layers the core mantle and crust
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the core is deep in the middle of a planet and damn it's hot so hard down
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next up is the mantle with the crust right above it which includes our beloved ground
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the heat from the core melt rocks and mail the like wax on a candle and then
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quit gases and mixes and that makes a liquid called magma say it again they call it
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but how on Earth does it make its way up through the Earth to the light up
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well the wimba lower feed is divided into pieces called tectonic plates
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like a jigsaw puzzle by the pieces Shuffle around at a sluggish pace
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and depending on the flow of the magma below then a bum or pull apart
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when that creates gaps there's a pressure change fast and that's how our option start because the pressure
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pressure shoots back more right on through
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and then a flash you'll see a splash of
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the answer lies within its three layers the core mantle and crust
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mantle and crust
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