eruptions
types of volcanoes
volcano
volcanic landforms
random
100
quiet and explosive eruptions
What are the two types of volcanic eruptions?
100
a shield volcano, a cinder cone volcano, a composite volcano, lava plateau, and a caulderus.
What are the five types of volcanos?
100
a volcano is a weak spot in the crust were molten material, or magma, comes to the suface.
What is a volcano?
100
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how many types of landforms cause volcanos?
100
a magma chamber.
What in a volcano collects magma?
200
the gases disolved in the magma rush out, carring the magma with them, once it reaches the surface it becomes lava.
What is an eruption?
200
A large hole at the top of a volcano's magma chamber.
What is a caulderus?
200
magma is a molten mixture of rock forming substaces, gases, and water vapor from the mantle.
what is magma?
200
hot spot, divergent, and convergent boundries,
What are the names of the causes of volcanic locations?
200
a bowl shaped area that may form at the top of a volcano.
What is a crater?
300
quiet eruptions erupt quietly if it's magma flows easily, while explosive eruptions have thick and sticky magma that erupts explosivly.
how do the two types of volcanic eruptions differ?
300
a tall cone-shaped mountain in which layers of lava alternate with layers of ash.
What is a composite volcano?
300
when magma reaches the surface, it's called lava.
how is lave formed?
300
a hot spot is an area which is were magma from deep within the mantle melts thru the crust like a blowtorch.
how do you define a hot spot?
300
Ms.Chrisanthon :D
who is the best teacher in the world?
400
an explosive eruption has thick and sticky magma that causes it to explosivly erupt.
how do you define an explosive eruption?
400
a steep, cone-shaped hill or mountain made of volcanic ash, cinders, and bombs piled up around a volcano.
What is a cinder-cone volcano?
400
the pacific ocean rim(ring o' fire)
What is the place were many volcanos form?
400
the ridge along an underwater rift valley that winds thru the oceans
how do you derine a divergent plate boundary?
400
trick question (unknown)
what is the number of active volcanos on earth?
500
a quiet eruption erupts quietly if the magma flows easily
how do you define a quiet eruption?
500
a wide, gently slopeing mountain made of layers of lava formed by quiet eruptions.
What is a shield volcano?
500
a deposite of hardened magma in a volcano's pipe.
What is a volcanic neck?
500
volcanos form near the plate boundaries where some oceanic crust returns to the mantle.
how do you define a convergent plate boundary?
500
soufriere
what is the name of the volcano that spoiled the island paradise of montserrate?
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