Volcano Fun Facts
The largest active volcano in the world.
What is Mauna Loa in Hawaii?
Name the type of volcano Mt. St. Helen is
What is a stratovolcano?
The belt of tectonic plates that most volcanoes are along?
What is the Ring of Fire?
Someone who studies volcanoes
What is a Volcanologist or Geologist?
Another name for volcanic smog. It forms when a volcano erupts and releases gases into the atmosphere.
What is vog?
The most dangerous volcano in the world.
What is Italy’s Mount Vesuvius?
The Roman town of Pompeii was destroyed by.
What is Mount Vesuvius?
What ocean does the Ring of Fire circle?
What is the Pacific Ocean?
Super hot melted rock that is in a chamber at the bottom of a volcano.
What is magma?
A numerical scale for expressing the magnitude of an earthquake on the basis of seismograph oscillations.
What is the Ritcher Scale?
The number of volcanoes in the United States.
What is 169?
What killed most of the people during the AD 79 Pompeii disaster.
What is a pyroclastic flow?
Or a big cloud of lava, dust, rocks, hot ash, and sulfuric gas.
Between the boundaries of what, do 60% of active volcanoes occur?
What are the tectonic plates?
Most volcanoes, like most earthquakes, occur along the boundaries between shifting tectonic plates.
White or grey stuff that billows out of a volcano
What is volcanic ash?
Name the 3 stages of a volcano.
What are active, dominant, and extinct Volcanoes?
The most dangerous volcano in the United States.
What is Kilauea in Hawaii?
This volcano is "growing" off of another volcano
What is Kilahuea?
What is the deadliest and most destructive volcano event in US history?
What is Mt. St. Helens?
Super hot melted rock that flows out of a volcano.
What is lava?
The four main classifications of volcanoes. Name all.
What are cinder cones, composite volcanoes, shield volcanoes, and lava or volcanic domes?
The largest volcano in the Universe.
What is Olympus Mons Mars?
This volcano appeared in a cornfield in Mexico practically overnight.
What is Paricutin?
What circled the Earth within 15 days after Mt. St. Helens' eruption back in 1980?
What is Ash?
Rock formed when magma cools and solidifies.
What is Igneous Rock?
What Roman God is the word volcano named after?
What is Vulcan?