Volcano
A volcano that is erupting or has erupted recently.
What is active?
What to plates do at a convergent boundary?
What is collide
How many types of volcanoes are there?
What are three(four if you include lava plateau).
Where is the most active volcanic region on Earth?
located around the rim of the Pacific Ocean.
What is magma called when it is on the earth's crust?
What is lava?
What are three things do volcanoes expel?
What are gasses, ash, lava, cinders, and rock fragments.
Magma is stored in this part of the volcano?
What is a magma chamber
A volcano is with tall, steep sides and was built by alternating layers of lava and ash and can create explosive eruptions.
What is a composite volcano?
Mt. Fuji is this type of volcano.
What is composite volcano?
How were the Hawaii Islands formed?
They were formed over a mantle plume in the middle of oceanic crust
Molten rock that is under the earth's surface.
What is magma
What is created when two continental plates diverge?
What is rift valley?
A volcano with low and broad sides, and was formed by runny lava.
What is a shield volcano?
The volcano in Paricutin, Mexico is an example of this kind of volcano.
What is cinder cone volcano?
Mantle plumes form what?
Hawaii Islands
The part of a volcano where magma erupts onto the earth's surface.
What is the vent?
What is created when two oceanic plates diverge?
What is mid-ocean ridge?
A kind of volcano is small with steep sides, formed from explosive eruptions, and made from layers of ash and cinders.
What is a cinder cone volcano?
What type of volcano is Mauna Loa on the Big Island of Hwaii?
What is a shield volcano?
What killed all the trees in the valley after Mount St. Helen erupted?
Hot Stone Wind
A volcano that has not erupted in a while, but may erupt in the future.
What is dormant
Most volcanoes form along these points on Earth.
What are plate boundaries?
This forms after a volcano has erupted and the center has collapsed to leave a hole which can fill with water.
What is a caldera?
Pyroclastic flows, like the Mt St Helens eruption, are associated with this type of volcano.
What is a composite volcano?
How long does a Volcano have to be inactive for it to be considered dormant?
200 years