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Q: How are underwater volcanoes different from land volcanoes?
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How are underwater volcanoes different from volcanoes that are above sea level?

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What is the difference between Compare volcanoes that form on land with volcanoes that form in the ocean.?

Land Volcanoes eat lamas and underwater volcanoes eat camals


What are the damages caused by a under water volcanoes?

All volcanoes have some dangers, of course. Some underwater volcanoes can lead to tsunamis or other forms of water disasters. Land volcanoes spit ouot hot ash and lava and molten rock, and smoke as well, so much so that you could be burned alive by boiling hot ash, choked to death by smoke or gas or burned by lava, or even crushed by falling rock.


What causes an underwater volcano erupts?

Volcanoes underwater erupt in much the same way as those on dry land. They erupt when pressure builds up. The difference between these two types of volcanoes is that the lava produced in an underwater volcano cools dramatically faster than the lava on land.


How many types of volocanoes are there?

There are actually quite a few different kinds of volcanoes in the world such as active volcanoes. These volcanoes include also underwater volcanoes and inactive volcanoes.


Where are the main functioning volcanoes?

Most of the functioning Volcanoes today are in Indonesia ( Land ) Underwater most are in the Pacific Ring of Fire ( Ocean )


Can volcanoes occur underwater?

Yes and a great many of the earth's volcanoes are underwater.


Did mt rainier start underwater?

No. Mount Rainier formed on land as did the other Cascade volcanoes.


ARE volcanoes found only in islands?

No, some volcanoes are underwater and when they erupt the magma gets higher and higher and forms on the ocean which is land. (that is how Hawaii was made)


What are Underwater volcanoes called?

Underwater volcanoes are called submarine volcanoes. They form in a similar way as their continental counterparts, that is close to plate boundaries.


What percent of the worlds thermal vents and volcanoes are under water?

yes there is volcanoes under the water in and sea in the artic ocean and they are more dangerous because they got poison in them and they can kill a lot of people and animals


How do underwater volcanoes start?

with a bang