Parts of volcanoes
Types of Rocks
Vocabulary
Rock Cycle
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What is a crater?
A crater is a bowl- shaped area that forms around a volcanoes central opening (or known as a vent)
100
How is Sedimentary Rock formed?
A type of rock forms when particles from other rocks or remains of plants and animals are pressed and cemented together.
100
What is Silica?
A material found in magma that is formed from the elements oxygen and silicon
100
What is a rock cycle?
A series of processes on the surfaces and inside Earth that slowly changes rocks from one kind to another.
100
What is my brother's name? (Angela's Brother)
Siyeong
200
what is a pipe?
A long tube through which magma moves from the magma chamber to Earth's surface
200
What is a metamorphic rock?
Rock that forms when a rock is changed by heat, pressure, or chemical reaction
200
What is a Hot Spot?
An area where magma from deep within the mantle melts through the crust above it
200
What are the 3 types of rocks?
sedimentary, metamorphic, igneous
200
What causes a volcano to erupt?
When pressure builds up from the gases
300
What is a Ring of Fire
Volcano belt that rims the Pacific Ocean
300
What is a sedimentary rock?
A type of rock that forms when particles from other rocks or the remains of plants and animals
300
What is a Dormant Volcano
A volcano which is presently inactive but which may erupt again.
300
All rocks are made of one or more ____________________ ?
mineral
400
What is a vent?
Opening through which magma leaves a volcano
400
What type of rock is formed by weathering and erosion?
Sedimentary
400
What is an Island arc?
A string of islands formed by the volcanoes along deep-ocean trench
400
When magma cools, what type of rock does it become?
Igneous
500
what is a volcano?
A weak spot in the crust where the magma has to come to the surface.
500
What does "E.D.C.C." stand for?
erosion, deposition, compaction, cementation
500
What is a central valley?
The large basin in California between the coast range and the Sierra Nevada
500
Volcanoes ooze a liquid rock material called________________?
Lava
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