This type of Volcano is found right here in the Magic Valley. It is known as a "Maximum effect, minimal Danger" Volcano.
What is a Shield Volcano?
100
The most destructive weapon a volcano has in its arsenal.
What is a pyroclastic flow?
100
This Volcano was discovered in the 1980's.
What is Yellowstone?
100
The name of the 12 plates where most volcanoes are formed.
What are the Tectonic Plates?
100
This Hawaiian volcano was describe as being "maximum effect, minimal danger".
What is Mt. Kilauea?
200
This Volcano has steep sides and is composed or ash, lava, and various debris. This is an explosive type of volcano. Mt. Saint Helen's is an example of one of these.
What is a Strato or Composite volcano?
200
This volcano was triggered by a landslide causing the eruption to blow sideways destroying 230 square miles of land.
What is Mt. Saint Helen's?
200
This Volcano was in the movie "2012".
What is the Yellowstone Caldera?
200
A moving location not found at a plate boundary, where volcanoes can form.
What is a Hot Spot?
200
This Volcano kill1800 people without erupting. The cause of this disaster was a landslide and earthquake. Is know as the "Silent Killer".
What is Lake Nyos?
300
This type of Volcano is formed after magma is displaced in an eruption and the land sinks into the void that is left after the eruption.
What is a Caldera?
300
This type of volcano can cause an apocalyptic event.
What is Super Volcano?
300
A Volcano that erupted 74,000 years ago.
What is Lake Toba?
300
Volcanoes sometimes form at this boundary where the plates are moving apart.
What is a divergent boundary?
300
This volcano erupted in 1963 forming a new island of the coast of Iceland.
What is Surtsey?
400
This Volcano is made up of ash and debris, it usually has sloping sides.
What is a Cinder Volcano?
400
This Volcano erupted so loud that it was heard all the way in Australia and is considered the loudest sound ever recorded.
What is Krakatoa?
400
Lake Toba, YellowStone, Aira, Aso, Taupo Volcano, Siberian Traps, and Valles Caldera.
What are the 7 Super Volcanoes?
400
The most active volcanic region on the planet earth.
What is the "Ring of Fire"?
400
This volcano last erupted 600,000 years ago.
What is Yellowstone Caldera?
500
The four types of Volcanoes.
What are Caldera, Strato, Cinder, and Shield Vocanoes.
500
This volcano formed a caldera and also caused "the year without Summer".
What is Mt.Tambora?
500
Mr. Weaver lived between these two Super Volcanoes.
What are Mt. Aso and the Aira Caldera?
500
This type of boundary is where one plate moves under another plate resulting in mountains and volcanoes being formed.
What is a subduction zone?
500
This volcano erupted causing a massive pyroclastic flow and a 130 foot tall Tsunami.