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Once it comes out of the Earth it is called this.
What is lava?
This type of volcano makes the biggest BOOMs.
What is a composite volcano?
This volcano type looks like an upside down snow saucer.
What is a shield volcano?
The settling out of sediments is called this.
What is deposition?
A person that studies volcanoes.
What is a vulcanologist?
This type of rock is made from compression of layers.
What is sedimentary rock?
What is a convection current?
This is what determines if a volcano goes BOOM, pft, or blub blub.
What is the amount of pressure built up from gas or magma?
The most common type of volcano.
What is cinder cone?
This is how sediments get stuck together.
What is cementation?
This expansion can help us determine if a volcano is active.
What is inflation?
This type of rock is made from melting other types of rock.
What is igneous rock?
This is why some lava runs faster and further than other lava.
What is temperature?
When the top of a composite volcano blows off it becomes this.
What is a caldera?
This volcano has steep sloping sides and multiple vents.
What is a composite volcano?
________ type of rock can turn into all types of rocks under the right conditions.
What is any/every?
The shape of a volcano happens because of this characteristic of the lava.
What is viscosity?
Turning into this type of rock only requires melting.
What is igneous?
This describes how runny or thick a liquid is.
What is viscosity?
This is an eruption that releases a "wave" of toxic gasses and hot ash.
What is pyroclastic flow.
This volcano is a steep mound with only one vent.
What is a cinder cone?
The process of wearing away existing rock that is exposed to the elements.
What is weathering?
This seismic activity can be seen around volcanoes as they expand and contract.
What is an earthquake swarm?
This type of rock is made deep underground.
What is metamorphic rock?
The three things volcanos are most likely to form above.
This is the scale used to rate a volcanic explosion based on magnitude and intensity.
What is the volcanic explosivity index (VEI)?
This type of volcano is big, round, and often described as a caldron as it looks like a big scoop was taken out of the middle.
What is a caldera?
This is is the process where particles of rock are relocated.
What is erosion?
The formation of volcanoes is determined by this kind of process.
What is geologic processes?
The number of rock types that can be formed using pressure.
What is 2?