Shield Volcanoes -- 10 easy points!!?

Shield volcanoes are very wide but, shorter than a stratovolcano. Kind of looks like a giant battle shield laying on the Earth. The lave is low in silica, H2O and other acids, therefore calm eruptions. Lava is very thin (plutonic) that is why the volcano is wider than it is steep. They are located more on a divergent fault lines, or hot-spots rather than convergent. Mt. Mauna Loa and Mt Kilauea are two examples of shield volcanoes.