Parts of a Volcano
The area of the volcano underground that holds the magma before it comes out of the volcano.
What is the magma chamber?
Tectonic Plates move approximately 3 inches per year. True or False
True
This volcano in Hawaii is the largest volcano in the world.
What is Mauna Loa?
This type of volcano is the most common type. It is usually very small and shoots out burned rock pieces, or cinders, from its crater.
What is a cinder cone volcano.
Magma that has come out of the volcano.
What is lava?
Two plates sliding past each other causes volcanoes. True or False?
False. Plates moving together or away from each other cause volcanoes.
This fluid can reach 2,000 degrees Fehrenheit.
What is Lava?
The bowl-shaped opening at the top of the volcano.
What is a crater?
The type of tectonic plate that is under the ocean.
What is Oceanic plate (or oceanic crust)?
About 2,000 volcanoes on Earth are considered active. True or False?
True
This volcano is made up of tons of liquid lava that can flow from lots of different vents inside of the volcano.
What is a shield volcano.
A tunnel through a volcano that carries magma through and out of the volcano.
What is a vent?
The word volcano comes from the roman name, Volturnus. True or False?
The word “volcano” comes from the Roman name “Vulcan”. He was the Roman god of fire!
Volturnus was the roman God of Water
The name of the one large piece of land where all the earth's continents started from.
What is Pangea?
This type of volcano is very tall with steep sides from lava and ash that build up around it. It also has very violent eruptions.
What is a stratovolcano (or composite)?