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Picture That!
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What is a dense cloud of super-hot gases and rock fragments that races downhill from an erupting volcano called?
pyroclastic flow
100
How does most volcanoes occur?
along plate boundaries
100
What makes a pyroclastic flow so dangerous?
its speed and its temperature
100
Where does volcanoes form? (3 parts)
converging boundaries, divergent boundaries, and hot spots
100
Draw a picture of a volcano and properly label the structure using the following words: rising magma, magma chamber
200
What is an opening through which lava, rocks, and gases erupt called?
Volcano
200
Why do scientist monitor volcanoes?
predict when future eruptions will occur
200
What is a volcano?
an opening through which lava, rocks, and gases erupt
200
What is a sign that might indicate that a volcano might soon erupt?
rising temperature in volcanic lakes
200
Draw a picture of a volcano and properly label the structure using the following words: rock fragments, and lava flow
300
Where are tilted blocks of rock commonly found/
along ocean spreading zone
300
What can be dangerous to people who live far from an erupting volcano?
ash clouds, because they can be carried by wind
300
Where are blocks of rock that have tilted along faults are common at?
ocean spreading centers
300
What can be dangerous to people who live hundreds of kilometers from an erupting volcano?
volcanic ash clouds
300
This volcano is built up of many thin layers of hardened lava
Shield volcano
400
When does volcanoes in folded mountains form
When oceanic plates partly melts as it goes through the mantle
400
Volcanoes affect Earth's atmosphere by increasing……….
acid rain
400
Folded mountains form at tectonic boundaries where……….
plates move towards each other
400
What are some of the effects of volcanic eruptions on Earth's atmosphere? (2 parts)
an increase of acid rain and decrease in Earth's temperature
400
This has steep sides and is a loose pile of volcanic rock fragments
cinder cone
500
What is one way that a filed mountain belt can form?
Two continental plates push together
500
What are hot springs that erupt and send hot water shooting into the air called
geyser
500
A folded mountain belt is located far from the edge of a present-day tectonic plate boundary. This mountain belt likely formed………...
when two continental plates collided
500
What does a fumarole release? (2 parts)
steam and other gases
500
This is coned shaped and built up of layers of hardened lava and of rock fragments
composite volcano
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