Types of Volcanoes
Volcano Parts
Eruption Products
Volcanic Landforms
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 which hardens above ground.
What is lava?
100
This is what forms when magma hardens in a volcanic pipe.
What is a volcanic neck or throat?
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 or stratovolcano?
200
This is the narrow tube that rises from the magma chamber to the vent.
What is the pipe or conduit?
200
This is molten rock below ground?
What is magma?
200
A flat piece of rock formed when magma hardens in a crack in a volcano.
What is a sill?
200
This is a place where a volcano forms even though it isn't on a boundary.
What is a hot spot?
300
This type of volcano is a steep cone shaped hill or mountain with a single vent.
What is a cinder cone volcano?
300
This is the large area underground where the magma is held.
What is the magma chamber?
300
Mixtures of hot, dry rock fragments and hot gases are erupted from a volcano.
What is pyroclastic flow?
300
This is the bowl shaped area that forms around the volcano's vent.
What is the crater?
300
This is one tectonic plate sliding under another plate and melting into magma.
What is subduction?
400
Mt. Fuji is this type of volcano.
What is a composite or stratovolcano.
400
This is a crack in the rock that magma moves through.
What is a fissure?
400
Large rocks thrown from a volcano when it erupts.
What are bombs?
400
This is a hole left by the collapse of a volcanic mountain.
What is a caldera?
400
Name any two dangers from volcanic eruptions.
What are lava flow, falling ash, poisonous gases, avalanches, mud slides, tsunamis, or earthquakes?
500
The volcanoes in Hawaii are these type.
What are shield volcanoes?
500
This is a crack that lava flows out which is not the main vent.
What is the side vent.
500
Springs that throw boiling water into the air.
What are geysers?
500
Lava is too thick to flow and makes a steep-sided mound as the lava piles up near the volcanic vent.
What is a lava dome?
500
This volcano erupted in Washington state in 1980.
What is Mt. St. Helens?
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