This is an underground channel that carries magma in a volcano from the magma chamber to the summit.
What is a conduit?
100
This fizzie covers Minnesota and Wisconsin and extends up into our neighbor to the north. It has characteristically poor soil and abundant lakes.
What is the Canadian shield?
100
Mount St. Helens
What is a stratovolcano?
100
Most stratovolcanoes are found above this type of geographical "area".
What is a subduction zone?
200
This transform boundary is one of the most well known. It is known for causing many large earthquakes, as well as unusual landforms near the boundaries.
What is the San Andreas fault?
200
This is a liquid's resistance to flow.
What is viscosity?
200
This fizzie extends across the middle of the United States. It has rich soils and is underlain by sedimentary rocks.
What is the Interior Plains?
200
Mount Fuji
What is a stratovolcano?
200
This is a sign that tells us that there is elevated unrest in a volcanic area.
What is a yellow advisor?
300
This is formed when two plates begin to diverge from one another.
What is a continental rift zone?
300
This is the description of natural landforms and other geographical features on Earth's surface.
What is physiography?
300
The Coastal plain fizzie extends from NY down to Alabama, along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. This is the type of rock that underlays this fizzie.
What is sedimentary rock?
300
Mauna Loa
What is a shield volcano?
300
This is one way that volcanoes can affect the hydrosphere.
What is create hot springs in nearby areas?
400
These are the two plates that converge to form the Rocky Mountains (among other landforms).
What is the Pacific plate and the North American plate.
400
A very hot, dense cloud of volcanic gases, ash and other rock debris.
What is a pyroclastic flow?
400
This is the region that Columbus (and to the East) falls into.
What is the Appalachian Highlands fizzie?
400
A volcano with low silica content.
What is a shield volcano?
400
This is the material blasted into the air by a volcano.
What is tephra?
500
These are two characteristics of the plate that would "sink" when two plates converge.
What is colder, denser. (oceanic plate)
500
This is a type of lava that contains 52-63% silica, and often erupts as a lava flow from volcanoes.
What is andesitic lava?
500
This fizzie has COMPLEX mixtures of rock types, ages, etc.
What is the Western Mountain Region?
500
Another name for a stratovolcano
What is composite volcano?
500
This is a mixture between volcanic ash and melted ice/snow.