Types of Volcanoes
Volcano Parts
Magma/Lava
Volcanic Landforms
Other Stuff
100
What are the three types of volcanoes.
What are shield, cinder cone, and composite?
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 mountain that releases lava from the Earth.
What is a volcano?
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
What did the government do with the land around Mt. St. Helens?
What is a National Monument?
200
Which liquid did we use in the lab to simulate basalt?
What is water?
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 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 or a cooler climate?
400
This is the volcano created by lava low in silica.
What is a shield volcano?
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 aa?
400
This is a mass of rock that forms when a large body of magma cools inside the crust.
What is a volcanic block?
400
This other planet has extinct volcanoes similar to earth.
What is Mars?
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 pahoehoe?
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 material?
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