How Do Volcanoes Affect The Environment

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Every year at least one volcano erupts and damages many things around them, but how do volcanoes effect the people and their environment? There are many different types of volcanoes such as the cinder cone volcano, shield volcano and many more but what they all have in common is that they effect the environment and the people living in it.

One of the many ways a volcano can affect the environment and the people is if it’s an active volcano. An active volcano is a volcano that has had an eruption during at least 10,000 years ago. Active volcanoes can be erupting or dormant (A quiet volcano that hasn’t erupted yet but is supposed to). In the year 1990 about 60 volcanoes had erupted. From 1990-1999 154 volcanoes in total had erupted during the

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