volcanoes and plate tectonics
Volcanic Eruptions
Volcanic Landforms
California Geology
Other
100
magma
What is a mixture of rock froming substances from the mantle?
100
magma chamber
What is the pocket where magma collects beneath a volcano
100
cinder cone volcanoes
What is most explosive volcano type
100
features that have been created from the movement of the north american plates
What is faults, volcanoes, mountain ranges, basins?
100
What do volcanoes that are found where two oceanic plates collide form?
What is an island arc.
200
Ring of fire
What is a major volcanic belt?
200
pipe
What is a long tube in the groud that connects magma to surface.
200
composite volcano
Which volcano has both explosive and non explosive eruptions?
200
broad bowl shaped valley
What is a basin?
200
When does magma turn into lava
What is once it flows out to the surface?
300
along the earths plate boundaries
What is where do volcanic belts form?
300
bowl shaped area that forms at a central vent.
What is a crater.
300
Shield Volcanoes
What is the volcano that has a non explosive eruptions.
300
huge basinwith the Sierras and Coast Ranges on either side.
What is Central Valley of California
300
A volcano is called dormant when...
What is when it has not erupted in a very long time and might erupt again later.
400
an area where material from the mantle rises than melts.
What is how is a hot spot formed.
400
Silica
What is material found in magma formed from oxygen and silicon.
400
5 landforms that form from magma
What is caldera, volcanic neck, dike, sill, intrusion.
400
A hole filled with pieces of volcano that has fallen inward
What is a caldera
400
What are the two types of explosions?
What is Quiet & Explosive?
500
island arc
What is string of volcanoes on the ocean floor?
500
terms to classify volcano
What is dromant, extinct, active
500
mass of rock formed when magma cools inside rock.
What is a batholith?
500
When magma squeezes through layers of horizontal rock
What is a sill?
500
A weak spot in the crust where magma comes to the surface.
What is a volcano?
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