Imagine a volcano like a giant bottle of soda that's been shaken up. When it erupts, it’s like the soda suddenly fizzing out all over the place. But when it goes to sleep, it’s like the soda stops bubbling for a while. This happens because inside the Earth, hot rock called magma is moving around. If the pressure builds up enough, the volcano erupts, but if there's not enough pressure or magma left, it can go to sleep for years.
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- A volcano is like a giant soda bottle, when the pressure builds up inside, it erupts all over the ground.
- Sometimes volcanoes go to sleep because there's not enough magma left to push through.
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See also
- How Does a Volcano ‘Erupt’ Exactly?
- How Do Volcanoes Shape the Earth's Surface?
- What Makes a Volcano Erupt Violently?
- How Do Volcanoes Create New Land?
- How Are Mountains Formed?
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