We all know that we have different personality traits that make us unique human beings. Some of us seem to prefer order and predictability. We feel comfortable when we work on a schedule. A good day is when we can check everything off our to do list. While others of us are more spontaneous and become bored when things are too predictable.
Venus has over 150 large shield volcanoes. These shields are mostly between 100 and 600 km across, with heights between about 0.3 and 5.0 km. The largest shields, however, are over 700 km in diameter and up to 5.5 km in height.
Volcanoes come in all shapes and sizes. The more common types are shield volcanoes, stratovolcanoes, and cinder cones. Shield volcanoes gained their name from the fact that their profile against the horizon looks like a shield laying on the ground. The flanks of a shield volcano have low slopes, sometimes only a few degrees from horizontal. Shield volcanoes are the largest volcanic features on earth. The largest shield volcano, Mauna Loa in the Hawaiian Islands, has a volume 300 times greater than that of the largest stratovolcano, Mount Fuji in Japan.