By now, you will no doubt have learned that volcanoes occur in narrow belts in certain areas of the world. These belts also suffer earthquakes, and they mark out the areas where the Earth's tectonic plates are coming together or moving apart.
Carbon dioxide
Sulfur dioxide
Oxygen
Nitrogen
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The Sun
Nuclear waste
Fossil fuels
A hotspot
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Primary effect
Secondary effect
Tertiary effect
All of the above
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Hawaii is an LEDC and so the local authorities did not have the money to warn people
There are no motor vehicles on the island so it was not possible for them to evacuate
The local authority decided to leave the people of Hilo to sort themselves out
Mauna Loa eruptions produce only lava and so pose little or no threat to settlements
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Animals being suffocated by ash from a volcano
People being killed when the weight of ash on a roof causes it to collapse
A flock of sheep being killed by a pyroclastic flow
Trees in a forest uprooted and destroyed by a lava flow
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Deccan
Strombolian
Composite
Shield
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There is a huge crater at the centre of this feature
There were lots of layers of volcanic ash
The Siberian Traps are made up from basaltic lavas
The Siberian Traps are made from granite
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The release of large amounts of volcanic gases causing climate change
The lava could have flowed right round the world, burning the dinosaurs to death
Eathquakes caused by the eruption would have created massive cracks in the ground that the dinosaurs fell into and died of starvation
A combination of all of them
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Shield volcanoes
Composite cone volcanoes
Stratified volcanoes
Vesuvian volcanoes
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