Question

What are the types of volcanoes? Name them and explain each in short.

Answer 1

Answer:

Strictly speaking there are two broad types of volcano – a stratovolcano and a shield volcano, although there are lots of volcanic features that can form from erupted magma (such as cinder cones, or as lava domes) as well processes that shape volcanoes.

Geologists generally group volcanoes into four main kinds--cinder cones, composite volcanoes, shield volcanoes, and lava domes.

Answer 2

Explanation :

There are three types of Volcanoes :-

(i) Active Volcanoes

(ii) Dormant Volcanoes

(iii) Extinct Volcanoes

(i) Active Volcanoes : These are the volcanoes which are presently in active state and have erupted in the recent past.

(ii) Dormant Volcanoes : These volcanoes have not erupted in recent historical period.

(iii) Extinct Volcanoes : These are the types which have not erupted in the present geological period and not likely to become active again.