Types of Volcanoes
Composite and Cinder
Magma/Lava
Shield Volcano
Other Stuff
100
This volcano has gently sloping sides.
What is a shield volcano?
100
This volcano has very explosive eruptions.
What is a composite?
100
This is molten rock above ground.
What is lava?
100
This is what a shield volcano is named after.
What is a Hawaiian soldier's shield?
100
This is a volcano that is is sleeping.
What is a dormant volcano?
200
This type of volcano has layers of ash and lava.
What is a composite volcano?
200
This word means "Ash"
What is Cinder?
200
This is molten rock below ground?
What is magma?
200
This describes the viscosity of the the lava.
What is thin?
200
This is a volcano that is currently erupting.
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 volcano is the fastest growing.
What is Cinder Cone?
300
This word is used to describe the thickness of lava.
What is viscosity?
300
This is the largest shield volcano in the world.
What is a Mauna Loa?
300
This is one benefit of volcanoes for life.
What is fertile soil?
400
This is caused by a volcano blowing off it's top.
A landslide
400
This volcano's eruptions consist of toxic gas, rocks, and lava.
What is a composite volcano?
400
This is molten rock beneath the earth's surface.
What is magma?
400
This word describes the speed of the lava escaping from the shield volcano.
What is fast?
400
These two other planets have extinct volcanoes similar to earth.
What is Venus and Mars?
500
This is the top of a volcano from which lava and gas escapes.
What is a crater?
500
What is another name for a composite volcano?
What is a stratovolcano?
500
This is formed when magma rises to the surface and then falls back down.
What is a caldera?
500
These islands in the pacific ocean are the largest shield volcanos.
What is the Hawaiian islands?
500
This is a volcano that has erupted in the past but not likely to erupt in the future.
What is an extinct volcano?
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