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Q: What happens to the layers of the crust when a volcano erupts?
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What you mean by volcanos?

A volcano is a vent (opening) in the earths crust through which molten materials erupts suddenly.


What force that forces magma out of a volcano?

Magma erupts out because of immense pressure inside the earth's crust.


What suddenly changes Earth's crust?

The existing layer will aventually sink and when a volcano or something erupts, it becomes solid and replaces the old crust.


How does the center of the earth cause a natural disaster?

The mantle is made of lava. When lava makes cracks in the crust it makes a volcano. When the volcano erupts it makes a natrual diaster.


What is the moving portion of earths crust and upper mantle?

a moving portion of earths crust and upper mantle is called a ridge that's when the ocean floor has underwater volcano that erupts


Why does a mountain build around a volcano when a volcano erupts many times?

because the cynder, ashes and lava build around the volcano.and when the lava cools around it, it becomes a hard crust


What happens when layers of eath crust crack and move?

An Earthquake


Where does the magma get trapped in the layers of the volcano where the magma never reaches outside?

The magma gets trapped in the layers of the volcano in a magma chamber. This chamber is typically located deep within the Earth's crust, below the volcano's vent. The thick and solidified rocks surrounding the chamber help contain the magma and prevent it from reaching the surface.


What does a volcano look like inside?

it has up to nine different layers in a volcano. it has the lower mantle, upper mantle, magma chamber, sill, two vents, dike, strata or the layers, and the crust.


What happens when a plate of oceanic crust collides with a plate of Continetal crust why?

the oceanic crust slides down and burns in the mantle and forms a volcano


Do volacnoes erupt as often as earthquakes happen?

no because earthquakes are from mountains split into two sides and the volcano erupts when the crust cant hold the heat from the core


What happens when the contential crust collides with the same crust?

When continental crust collides with the same crust it creates an earthquake, or sometime it can cause a volcano to explode. Including oceanic crust.