Volcano Facts
Volcano Forms
Eruptions
Famous Volcanoes
Vocabulary
100
A volcano that is not currently active is called this
Dormant
100
Name the 3 types of volcanoes
cindercone, shield, composite
100
Eruptions can either be one of these 2 things
explosive or quiet
100
Where is Mount St. Helens located?
Washington
100
Extremely hot places deep within the Earth's mantle.
Hot spots
200
A volcano that is sometimes erupting smoke, steam, ash, cinders, and flows of lava
Active
200
This type of volcano has gently sloping sides
Shied volcanoes
200
Magma that flows of onto Earth's surface from a volcano.
lava
200
Where is Mount Vesuvius located?
Italy
200
An instrument that detects Earth's movements
Seismometer
300
The volcanoes that erupt at fairly regular time periods
Intermittent
300
It forms when explosive eruptions of sticky lava alternate with quieter eruptions of volcanic rock bits. This is the most explosive of all volcanoes.
Composite volcanoes
300
Possible products of an eruption include
volcanic bombs, cinders, and ash or dust
300
One of the 13 active volcanoes located in the Philippines
Mount Pinatubo
300
Process that occurs at divergent plate boundaries
Rifting
400
Volcanoes that have not erupted in recorded history
Extinct
400
Small volcanoes with a bowl shaped crater.
Cinder-cone volcanoes
400
The area around the edges of the Pacific Ocean where many volcanoes occur.
The Ring Of Fire
400
What was a major warning sign of Mount Pinatubo's eruption?
An earthquake
400
A large circular depression
Caldera
500
Name the 3 different ways a volcano can form based on plate tectonic concepts
plates moving toward each other, plates moving away from each other, hot spots
500
Mount St. Helens is an example of what type of volcano?
Composite
500
Where do most volcanic eruptions occur?
plate boundaries
500
Where is the largest volcano in the world located? Extra 100 points, What is it's name?
Hawaii Mauna Loa
500
A chain of volcanoes formed from magma that rises as a result of an oceanic plate sinking into the mantle.
Island Arc
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