Volcanoes
Paricutin
Mt. Pelee
Vocabulary
Miscillaneous
100
A mountain formed around a crack in the Earth's crust
What is a volcano
100
What kind of volcano erupted in Particutin?
What is a cinder cone
100
Where is Mt. Pelee located?
What is on the island of Martinique
100
What does it mean when a glacier is retreating/receding?
What is the glacier is moving backwards.
100
Name 4 things that come out of a volcano during an eruption?
What is ash, lava, cinder (rocks) and gases
200
Name the three types of volcanoes
What is shield, composite and cinder cone
200
What did the farmer see and smell when the Paricutin volcano first started?
What is a crack in the ground and smoke that smelled like rotten eggs.
200
How many people survived the eruption?
What is 1 man
200
Aftershock
What is a smaller tremor or shake after the bigger earthquake
200
What is the difference between lava and magma?
What is lava is on the outside and magma is on the inside of the volcano.
300
Lava that has a smooth, ropy texture
What is Pahoehoe
300
The name of the farmer who first saw the volcano forming
Who is Dionisio Poulido
300
Ludger Sylbaris
Who was a man being kept in an underground prison that was the only survivor of the Mt. Pelee eruption
300
Seismograph
What is the instrument used to measure the power of the earthquake.
300
What is the name for the opening in the top of a volcano
What is crater
400
Lava that has a rough texture and often makes "clinking" noises
What is Aa
400
What year did the Paricutin volcano erupt?
What is 1943
400
How far did the thick ash and dust that destroyed everything travel?
What is 8 miles
400
Pyroclastic Flow
What is a very hot mixture of lave and ash that erupts with great force and speed.
400
What is the circle of active volcanoes in the Pacific Ocean called?
What is the Ring of Fire
500
True or False: Volcanoes exist only on land
What is False
500
What happened to the town and the people?
What is the town was buried in lava but all the people were evacuated before anyone could get hurt.
500
What injuries did Ludger Sylbaris suffer from during the eruption?
What is smoke and ash filled his lungs, his skin and hair were slowly burned off.
500
Tephra
What is the ash, smoke and rocks (or cinder) blasted from a volcano during an eruption
500
Explain how earthquakes occur?
What is when two plates rub together along a fault line
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