Lava
Igneous Rocks
Volcanoes
Geography
Igneous Rocks
Part II
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Pahoehoe
What is the type of Lava with a ropy texture?
100
A light colored mineral with small crystals.
What is Rhyolite?
100
The tallest type of volcano.
What is a composite volcano?
100
The name for the volcanoes that surround the Pacific plate.
What is the Ring of Fire?
100
A preexisting rock that has been intruded by a pluton or altered by metamorphism.
What is Country Rock?
200
Viscosity
What is resistance to flow?
200
A Dark colored mineral with big crystals.
What is Gabbro?
200
The most common gas released by a volcano.
What is water?
200
The active range of volcanoes in the Northwestern United States.
What is the Cascade Range?
200
A texture in igneous rocks where minerals of markedly different size are present in the same rock.
What is Porphyritic?
300
Felsic Lava
What type of magma has a lower silica content?
300
An intermediate mineral with small crystals.
What is Andesite?
300
Continuous ground motion that lasts for minutes to hours as opposed to the sudden, sharp jolts produced by most earthquakes.
What is a volcanic tremor?
300
The type of plate boundary where Felsic Magma is most common.
What is a Converging Plate boundary?
300
The largest of all Plutons.
What is a Batholith?
400
Where Pillow Lava forms.
Where is the bottom of the ocean?
400
A light colored mineral with big crystals.
What is Granite?
400
Volcanic mudflows common on composite volcanoes.
What is a Lahar?
400
The country where the Cinder Cone Eldfell is located.
What is Iceland?
400
A sill that inflates and causes the overlying rocks to bow upward giving it a mushroom like geometry.
What is a Laccolith?
500
The place where magma forms that is not at the edge of a tectonic plate.
What is a hot spot?
500
An intermediate colored mineral with big crystals.
What is Diorite?
500
A device used to detect changes in the slope of the side of a volcano.
What is tiltmeter?
500
The second most volcanically active region on the earth.
What is Mediterranean belt?
500
Explain Bowen's Reaction series.
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