What is vocabulary word for fragmented volcanic material with particles that measure less than 2mm in diameter.
100
A conical volcano built up by many layers
What is a composite volcano?
100
When magma rises through the surface and flows out of the volcano as a viscous liquid called lava.
What is an effusive eruption?
100
Hawaii
What is the name of the islands that are made up of all shield volcanoes?
200
Solidified lava from an underwater eruption.
What is the definition of pillow lava?
200
Magma Chamber
What is the vocabulary word for the definition for a large underground pool of liquid rock found beneath the surface of the earth.
200
A domed volcano with gently sloping sides.
What is a shield volcano?
200
When magma is torn apart as it rises and reaches the surface in pieces known as pyroclasts.
What is an explosive eruption?
200
United States (Washington state)
Where is Mt. Saint Helens located?
300
The state of being thick and sticky due to internal friction.
What is the definition of viscosity?
300
Crater
What is the vocabulary word for the definition of a large bowl shaped cavity in the ground or on the surface of a planet or the moon typically caused by an explosion or the impact of a meteorite or other celestial body?
300
Deposit around a volcanic vent.
What is a Cinder Cone Volcano?
300
Riven by the compression of gas within magma, the direct opposite of the process powering magmatic activity.
What is an phreatomagmatic eruption?
300
Phillipines
Where is the volcano Mt. Pinatubo?
400
A large volcanic crater formed by a major eruption.
What is the definition of caldera?
400
Lava Flow
What is the vocabulary word for the definition of a mass of flowing or solidified lava?
400
A volcano that will never erupt again.
What is an extinct volcano?
400
An eruption which involves the decompression of gas within magma that propels it forward.
What is a magmatic eruption?
400
Pompeii
Where is Mt. Vesuvius located?
500
A small piece of partly burned coal or wood.
What is the definition of cinders?
500
Lava Dome
What is the vocabulary word for the definition of vicious lava that has been extruded from a volcanic vent?
500
A roughly circular mound-shaped protrusion resulting from the slow extrusion of viscous lava from a volcano.
What is a domed volcano?
500
An eruption which is driven by the superheating of steam via contact with magma; these eruptive types often exhibit no magmatic release, instead causing the granulation of existing rock.