Types of Volcanoes
Volcanoes
Vocabulary
100
Shield Volcanoe, Cinder Cone, Composite Cones
What is the 3 kinds of volcanoes
100
A mountain formed of lava
What is Volcanoes
100
A mountain formed from lava
What is a Volcano
200
Produced by the accumulation of fluid basaltic lava and have quiet eruptions
What is a shield volcanoe
200
Lava that looks like rope and is very smooth when cooled
What is pahoehoe
200
The measure of materials resistance to flow
What is Viscosity
300
Ejects lava which hardens in the air forms as volcanoes on the ground (produces gas rich in basaltic magma)
What is cinder cone volanoes
300
kind of volcanoes that have: Vents, Crater, Lava, Pyroclastic material, and Conduits.
What is a typical Volcanoe
300
The depression at the summit of a volcano or that which is produced by a meteorite impact
What is a Crater
400
is the combination of shield volcanoes and cinder cone volcanoes
What is Composite Cone Volcanoes
400
A type a lava flow that is rocky and jagged. (hurts when you walk on it)
What is A-a
400
Large depressions in volcanoes
What is Calderas
500
Small Volcanoes
what is Cinder Cone Volcanoes
500
Composition, Temperature, and dissolved gasses
What is factors that affect eruptions
500
The opening of the earths surface through which molten rock and gases are released
What is a vent
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