Types of Volcanoes
Volcano Parts
Magma/Lava
Volcanic Landforms
Other Stuff
100
This volcano has gently sloping sides.
What is a shield volcano?
100
This is the point where the magma leaves the volcano's pipe.
What is the vent?
100
This is molten rock above ground.
What is lava?
100
This is what forms when magma hardens in a volcanic pipe.
What is a volcanic neck?
100
This is a volcano that is unlikely to erupt soon.
What is a dormant volcano?
200
This type of volcano has layers of ash and lava.
What is a composite volcano?
200
This is the narrow tube that rises from the magma chamber to the vent.
What is the pipe.
200
This is molten rock below ground?
What is magma
200
This is when magma squeezes between relatively horizontal layers of rock.
What is a sill?
200
This is when magma heats water underground and it is trapped.
What is a geyser?
300
This type of volcano is a very steep cone shaped hill or mountain.
What is a cinder cone volcano?
300
This is the large area underground where the magma is held.
What is the magma chamber?
300
This material changes the thickness of lava.
What is silica?
300
This is when magma forces itself into a vertical crack and hardens.
What is a dike?
300
This is one benefit of volcanoes for life.
What is fertile soil?
400
This is the term to describe an eruption that is slow flowing.
What is a effusive?
400
This is the bowl shaped area that forms around the volcano's vent.
What is the crater?
400
The silica content in thick lava is generally high or low?
high
400
This is a mass of rock that forms when a large body of magma cools inside the cust.
What is a batholith?
400
What are some signs that reveal a volcano might happen soon?
Earthquakes

Deformation of Land

Gas Release 


500
This is a term used to describe a violent eruption
What is a explosive?
500
This is a crack that lava flows out which is not the main vent.
What is the side vent.
500
Effusive volcanos might have _____ silica content.
What is low?
500
These are smaller bodies of magma that form a feature by forcing layers of rock to bend upward.
What is a dome mountain?
500
This is and explosion of ash cinders and bombs from a violent volcanic eruption.
What is a pyroclastic flow?
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