Rock Cycle
Volcano
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UNIT 4
Fung with Science
100
These Igneous rocks form when magma cools below the Earth's surface.
What are Intrusive Rocks?
100
A Johnny Cash song and location around the Pacific Ocean where most of the Earth's volcanoes exist
What is The Ring of Fire?
100
The forming of crystals when when a liquid cools.
What is Crystallization?
100
This naturally occurring, solid, chemical compound or element also known to be swirled together in marble.
What are Minerals?
100
An opening in the earth's surface through which molten rock flows is called a ...
A vent.
200
The continuous changing and remaking of rocks.
What is The Rock Cycle?
200
A slush mixture of molten rock that contains mineral crystaks and gases.
What is Magma?
200
This process is when moving plates cause rocks to move upward.
What is Uplift?
200
Sand, mud, dust, silt and little pieces of rock formed from weathering and erosion.
What is sediment?
200
What is the name of the volcano which erupted in 1980 and caused widespread damage in the Washington and Oregon region?
What is Mt. St. Helens
300
These rocks are formed when one type of rock changes to another over millions of years because of high temperature and pressure.
What is Metamorphic Rock?
300
A location far from a plate boundary where a magma plume creates a volcano or volcanic island.
What is a Hot Spot?
300
The area where two plates meet and where most volcanoes exist.
What is a Plate Boundary?
300
The thickness of a fluid.
What is Viscosity?
300
A dormant volcano means?
A dormant volcano is one that isn’t currently active or erupting, but geologists think that it’s still capable of erupting.
400
These rocks are formed from cemented or precipitated sediments.
What is Sedimentary Rock.
400
A tall volcano made of layers of ash, debris and layers of oozing lava. Has a high viscosity lava. Erupts explosively.
What is a Composite or Stratovolcano?
400
A type of gas. Found in the magma of some volcanoes.
What is Carbon Dioxide?
400
What has a higher Viscosity, honey or water?
Honey.
400
Basalt, Pumice, and Obsidian are all types of this.
What are volcanic igneous rocks
500
These rocks form when magma or lava cools and minerals crystallize. It's name comes from the word fire.
What is Igneous Rock?
500
A wide gently sloping volcano formed from low viscosity lava. Erupts with oozing low viscosity lava and does not erupt explosively.
What is a shield volcano?
500
The flow of superheated lava, smoke, ash and debris from a volcano. Mount Vesuvius destroyed Pompeii with this.
What is Pyroclastic flow?
500
A stream or line of rising hot magma at a hot spot.
What is a Magma Plume?
500
What is going on at Erta Ale and where is it located?
A lava lake in Ethiopia.
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