How many types of volcanic eruptions are there, and what are they?

Question

I have to do this for a geography project, and I really have been looking, but the information is either confusing or contradicts another thing I've read on a different website. Please help?

Answer 1

There are three Types of volcanic eruptions:

Magmatic

Phreatomagmatic  

Phreatic.

Answer 2

Char!

Answer 3

There are three MAJOR types; many are composites, that is they can do more than one kind of eruption.

These two sites are not too confusing

http://www.educ.uvic.ca/faculty/mroth/43...

http://library.thinkquest.org/17457/volc...

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Do you know how to MAKE a volcano?

red food colour, dishwashing detergent, mixed with baking soda. Add vinegar and watch it blow!  (without the colouring this is a good blocked drain cleaner, too).

Answer 4

Types of eruptions or volcano formations?

Formations for volcanoes are:

1.Shield

2.Cone

3.(One other I can't remember. Possibly Composite.)

And types that CAUSE the eruption

1. Tectonic plates rubbing side by side

2. The plates shoving one under and one over each other

3. The plates connecting and shoving each other upwards

Keep looking! Good stuff!