Jack T.

Why Volcanoes Erupt

     Long ago there was only one mountain on Earth. There were two beautiful lakes around the mountain. In one of those lakes there were two families of beavers. When they first moved to that lake, they took many trees down from one side. Ten years later they had eaten every single tree around the lake.  They needed to find more trees fast!

     The closest place they found was the mountain. So the next day they set out to find the mountain’s trees. Once they had cut down their first tree, one of the beavers said, “These are the best trees ever!” So they brought back one tree at a time. By the end of the day they had brought back five trees.

     “What are we going to do with all these trees” a baby beaver asked his father. His father replied, “Some of them we can eat and the rest we can use to upgrade our dams.”  “Could we make a dam mansion?” baby beaver asked. “No son that would be too much work for our worker beavers.”

       During the next two months, the beavers went to the mountain daily.  Every day they brought back more trees. The beavers didn’t notice that every time they cut down a tree, the mountain got angry. One day the mountain got so mad it suddenly started to rumble!

     “What was that?” asked Bob the Beaver. “It sounded like the mountain.” Said a worker beaver named Bugs Beaver. “I think the mountain is mad at us for cutting down trees.” said Bob. “He wouldn’t mind if we took one more” Bugs replied.

     So they took one more tree and then the mountain started to rumble again. Then it got so mad it blew its top off. A boiling hot liquid started pouring down the mountain. That is why to this day volcanoes erupt.