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Active volcanoes have a recent history of eruptions; they are likely to erupt again. Dormant volcanoes
have not erupted for a very long time but may erupt at a future time. Extinct volcanoes are not expected
to erupt in the future. Inside an active volcano is a chamber in which molten rock, called magma,
collects.
A plate boundary is a three-dimensional surface or zone across which there is a significant
change in the velocity (speed or direction) of motion of one lithospheric plate relative to
the adjacent lithospheric plate.