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Where do hotspot volcanoes form?
Volcano hotspots form when there is a buildup of pressure within the volcano. This pressure pushes molten lava up causing the earth to crack. These cracks then spew out the molten lava.
What are the streams of molten lava spilled out of a volcano called?
Streams of molten lava out of a volcano are called 'lava flows'.
Contrast magma to lava?
Magma is inside of the volcano and has molten rock in it. To where lava is outside the volcano and does not have as much molten rock in it as Magma does.
What does lava have to do with volcanoes?
Lava is molten rock that flows out of a volcano.
Is lava a volcano part?
Very much so. A volcano is the eruption of molten rock as lava.
What do lava mean?
Lava is the hot molten rock that emerges from a volcano.
Is lava NOT considered to be a rock?
Lava is a molten rock from a volcano, and is rock.
What is the name for magma flowing from a volcano?
Molten rock or Lava.
How are lava form?
Lava is molten rock. The rock deep inside the earths mantle is always molten, and when it occasionally breaks through to the surface, the opening is called a volcano, and the liquid rock spilling out of the top is lava.
What magma erupts onto the surface of the volcano?
Lava, in the form of molten rock, and super hot gases.
Molten rock at the surface is?
When you have a volcano the molten rock is called Magma when it is inside the volcano but when it gets out of the volcano it changes name to Lava.
What do you call the molten rocks expelled by a volcano?
lava
