Types of Volcanoes
This volcano has gently sloping sides.
What is a shield volcano?
Cracks in the Earth’s surface that lava streams out.
What are vents?
In A.D. 79, volcano erupted, devastating the Italian town of Pompeii.
What is a Mount Vesuvius?
This bird uses the warmth from volcanoes to help hatch their eggs!
What are the Maleo birds?
This type of volcano has layers of ash and lava.
What is a composite volcano or Stratovolcano?
Fine particles of pulverized rock that are blown from an explosion vent.
What is ash or pyroclastic material?
This is molten rock below ground.
What is magma?
In 1883, the volcano on the Indonesian island erupted with 13,000 times the power of an atomic bomb..
What is Krakatoa?
This material changes the thickness of lava.
What is silica or dissolved gas?
An active stratovolcano and is the tallest mountain in the Cascade Mountains in the state of Washington.
What is Mt. Rainier ?
The word "volcano" is derived from what name.
What is Vulcan, the Roman god of fire?
This is a volcano that is unlikely to erupt soon.
What is a dormant volcano?
This is the bowl shaped area that forms around the volcano's vent.
What is the crater?
This is fast moving hot lava.
What is pahoehoe?
This volcano is an active stratovolcano in Japan. That means it is composed of many strata, or layers, of ash and lava.
What is Mt. Fuji?
The study of volcanoes, lava, magma, and related geological, geophysical and geochemical occurrences.
What is a volcanology?
A volcano that has had no activity for a long time and is not expected to erupt again in the future.
What is an extinct (dead)?
The lava flows down the gently sloped sides. Lava may ooze through another vent opening.
What are fissures?
The are 3 common types of rock formed from the cooling of lava.
What is a basalt, obsidian, diorite, scoria, granite, and pumice?
This volcano was getting ready to burst for nearly two months before it exploded, not to mention more than 120 years it lay dormant..
What is a Mt. Saint Helens?
This is an explosion of ash cinders and bombs from a violent volcanic eruption.
What is a pyroclastic flow?