Famous Volcanos
Volcano Parts
Magma/Lava
Volcanic Landforms
Other Stuff
100
Yellowstone Cladera
What is the name of the super volcano located in Wyoming?
100
Where the magma leaves the volcano.
What is the vent?
100
This is molten rock above ground.
What is lava?
100
This is what forms when magma hardens in a volcanic pipe.
What is a volcanic neck?
100
This is a volcano that is unlikely to erupt soon.
What is a dormant volcano?
200
Mount St. Helens
This volcano is known for being the most destructive volcano in the United States?
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 when magma squeezes between relatively horizontal layers of rock.
What is a sill?
200
This is when magma heats water underground and it is trapped.
What is a geyser?
300
This is the large area underground where the magma is held.
What is the magma chamber?
300
What material changes the thickness of lava
What is silica?
300
This is when magma forces itself into a vertical crack and hardens.
What is a dike?
300
This is one benefit of volcanoes for life.
What is fertile soil?
400
Mount Vesuvius
This volcano is the most famous of them all and is also known as pompeii?
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
This is a mass of rock that forms when a large body of magma cools inside the cust.
What is a batholith?
400
These two other planets have extinct volcanoes similar to earth.
What is Venus and Mars?
500
Mount Tambora
This volcano caused a "volcanic winter" and was known as the "year without summer?"
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
These are smaller bodies of magma that form a feature by forcing layers of rock to bend upward.
What is a dome mountain?
500
This is and explosion of ash cinders and bombs from a violent volcanic eruption.
What is a pyroclastic flow?
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