December 20, 2017 | Elaina Howard, PhD, RAC, Senior Manager, Medical Writing and Submissions Management | Medical Writing Services. Have you recently tried to schedule a meeting with your coworkers and found it difficult to find a time when everyone is available? If this is the case, then you know how precious the time together can be and how important it is to have effective and efficient meetings. To put time spent in meetings into perspective, I often remind myself that while in a meeting, you are really using that time spent multiplied by the number of people in the room.
(plural active volcanos or active volcanoes). ( 1 geology) A volcano that has erupted in the last 10,000 years, not necessarily venting lava or gases now. 2  Link/Cite.
A volcano is an opening, or rupture, in a planet's surface or crust, which allows hot, molten rock, ash, and gases to escape from below the surface.Volcanic activity involving the extrusion of rock tends to form mountains or features like mountains over a period of time. mid-oceanic ridge, for example the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, has examples of volcanoes caused by divergent tectonic plates pulling apart; the Pacific Ring of Fire has examples of volcanoes caused by convergent tectonic plates coming together.