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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by magma

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she married magpa after they fell in lava. Magma magpie yes alright never mind [lava travelling down from a volcano]

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sorry read the sentences a line of blank can be found in what is known as the

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ring of fire which circles the Pacific Ocean these blank can erupt when

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pressure builds under the earth and magma is pushed out what's the ring of

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fire? use context clues to find the answer which will fit into both blanks

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in the sentences and here the potential answers.... Okay

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well ever play that game where the couch is dry land and the floor is hot lava [People jumping on furniture]

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and don't lie now we've seen the security camera footage well we've got

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four possible choices here and we want to know which one can erupt and produce

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magma which is basically lava that's still under the ground real lava though [Image of the earth's inner layers]

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not the carpeted kind. All four of our choices are nouns and they're all plural

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so grammatically it would make sense to stick any one of them into the blanks. But

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which one actually makes sense well it can't be B earthquakes, we've seen video [Man standing as earthquake causes him to wobble]

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of earthquakes before and while they can cause plenty of destruction there

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generally isn't molten material seeping up through the ground there was you can

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bet there would be a Hollywood blockbuster about it. How about D tornados [A movie showing an earthquake with lava spewing out]

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um, no. How can something erupt from a tornado, this ones interrupting our flow so

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let's move on we're left with just mountains or volcanoes both look pretty [A mountain and volcano side by side]

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similar but only one of them spews the hot stuff and that would be option A

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volcano's there we did it we got the right answer hey don't be shy feel free

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to erupt into a little dance of celebration there [Volcano dancing in celebration]

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