This type of volcano is one that has not erupted for many years, although there is still some activity deep inside.
What is a dormant volcano?
100
This measurement is virtually the whole size of Yellowstone National Park in which the caldera lies.
What is 2.2 million acres?
100
This caldera is located in Wyoming
What is Yellowstone Caldera
100
The USGS scientist who described the three Yellowstone calderas and told the world about the great eruptions that formed them.
Who is Bob Christiansen? (Bob)
200
Melted rock from a volcano
What is Lava?
200
This type of volcano is one that erupts regularly.
What is an active volcano?
200
This is the type of volcano Yellowstone is classifies as because it is capable of producing a volcanic eruption with an ejecta volume greater than 1,000 km³. (This is thousands of times larger than normal volcanic eruptions!)
What is a Super volcano?
200
This volcano is located in Washington
What is Mt. St. Helen
200
The professor at University of Utah that would help assess the degree of danger for Yellowstone and advise the superintendent.
Who is Robert B. Smith? (Rob)
300
These hot springs rise along cracks and erupt on the earth's surface
What is a geyser?
300
This type of volcano has a cauldron-like volcanic feature usually formed by the collapse of land following a volcanic eruption, such as the ones at Yellowstone National Park in the US.
What is a caldera volcano?
300
This is the name of the most famous geyser in the park that used to erupt regularly and spectacularly to heights of three hundred feet!
What is Excelsior Geyser?
300
This chain of volcanoes in the Pacific Ocean formed islands that have subsided and eroded beneath sea level
What is the Hawaiian Volcanoes
300
Yellowstone National Park's geologist that would help assess the degree of danger for Yellowstone and advise the superintendent.
Who is Paul Doss? (Pauly)
400
These fine particles of pulverized rock blown from an explosion vent.
What is ash?
400
This type of volcano is shaped like a bowl with long gentle slopes made by basaltic lava flows. The basalt of the Columbia Plateau were examples of this type of volcano.
What is a shield volcano?
400
This site monitors volcanic and earthquake activity in Yellowstone National Park in the United States.
What is The Yellowstone Volcano Observatory?
400
The region of mountain building earthquakes and volcanoes which surround the Pacific Ocean
What is the Ring of Fire
400
The husband-and-wife team of biologists that discovered the world's first extremophiles -an organism that thrives in physically or geochemically extreme conditions that are detrimental to most life on Earth!
Who are Thomas and Louise Brock? (Tom&Lou)
500
A location in the mantle that is hotter than any other areas and that melts rock, which is forced up toward the crust as magma
What is a hot spot?
500
This type of volcano is steep-sided and composed of many layers of volcanic rocks, usually made from high-viscosity lava, ash and rock debris. Mount St. Helens are examples of this type of volcano.
What is a Composite Volcano?
500
These are the years in which the Yellowstone eruptions occur, according to the cycle.
What is 600,000 years?
500
This is the biggest volcano located in Mexico
What is Popocatepetl
500
The scientist who won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for discovering the chain reaction that allows scientists to generate lots of DNA from very small amounts?