Shapes of Volcanic Mountains
This type of Volcano is built by thinner, fluid lava that spreads over a large area.
What is a Shield Volcano?
Eruptions can be anytime and often.
What is an Active Volcano?
It is an opening in the Earth's crust that emits melted rock called lava.
What is a Volcano?
The name of the plates where most volcanoes are formed.
What are the Tectonic Plates?
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 Composite volcano?
This volcano hasn't erupted in a very long, long time so it probably won't ever again.
What is an Extinct volcano?
Hot, melted rock that reaches Earth’s surface.
What is the lava?
The volcano collapses inside itself after the magma chamber beneath the volcano is emptied.
What is Caldera?
This type of Volcanic mountain has a broad base and gently sloping sides.
What is a shield volcano?
It has been a while since this type of volcano has erupted, but it could erupt at anytime.
What is a Dormant Volcano?
A formation of island aligned above a volcanic hot spot.
What is an Island Chain?
Lava, ashes and gases erupt through this opening.
What is a Vent?
This Volcano is made up of thick lava which falls as chunks or cinders, it usually has narrow base and steep sides sides.
What is a Cinder-cone Volcano?
Mount Fuji in Japan.
What is a Dormant Volcano?
A stationary location in Earth’s mantle where magma melts through a tectonic plate.
What is a Hot Spot?
The most active volcanic region on the planet earth.
What is the "Ring of Fire"?
The three types of Volcanoes.
What are Shield, Cinder-cone, and Composite Vocanoes.
Mount Vesuvius - Italy.
What is an Active Volcano?
An ocean floor plate is pushed under another ocean floor and melts when pushed down to form an island.
What is an Island Arc?
The eruptions form a series of volcanic islands along the plate boundary.
What is an Island Arc?