Types of Volcanoes
Volcano Parts
Magma/Lava
Other Stuff
100
This volcano has gently sloping sides.
What is a shield volcano?
100
This is the point where the magma leaves the volcano's pipe.
What is the vent?
100
This is molten rock above ground.
What is lava?
100
This is a volcano that is unlikely to erupt soon.
What is a dormant volcano?
200
This type of volcano has layers of ash and lava.
What is a composite volcano?
200
This is the narrow tube that rises from the magma chamber to the vent.
What is the pipe.
200
This is molten rock below ground?
What is magma
200

This is a volcano that is currently erupting, or will erupt soon.

What is an active volcano?

300
This type of volcano is a very steep cone shaped hill or mountain.
What is a cinder cone volcano?
300
This is the large area underground where the magma is held.
What is the magma chamber?
300
This material changes the thickness of lava.
What is silica?
300

This is a volcano that will not erupt again.

What is extinct?

400

This is a high level area formed by rising underground lava.

What is a lava plateau?

400
This is the bowl shaped area that forms around the volcano's vent.
What is the crater?
400
This is fast moving hot lava.
What is pahoehoe?
400

These are ejected from a volcano, and can be described as partially cooled clumps of lava.

What are lava/volcanic bombs?

500
This is a hole left by the collapse of a volcanic mountain.
What is a caldera?
500
This is a crack that lava flows out which is not the main vent.
What is the side vent.
500
This is cooler and slower moving lava.
What is aa?
500
This is and explosion of ash cinders and bombs from a violent volcanic eruption.
What is a pyroclastic flow?
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