At this part of the volcano, magma leaves the volcano's pipe.
What is the vent?
100
Molten rock after it exits the volcano.
What is lava?
100
Name of the region where most of the world's volcanoes occur.
What is the Ring of Fire?
100
This is a volcano that is unlikely to erupt soon.
What is a dormant volcano?
200
This type of volcano is made up of layers of ash and lava.
What is a composite volcano?
200
This part of the volcano is the narrow tube that rises from the magma chamber to the vent.
What is the pipe?
200
Molten rock inside the volcano.
What is magma?
200
Type of volcano that no longer erupts
What is an extinct volcano?
200
This occurs when magma heats underground water before erupting in a beautiful display - like Old Faithful in the USA.
What is a geyser?
300
This type of volcano is a very steep cone-shaped hill or mountain.
What is a cinder cone volcano?
300
In this large underground area of the volcano, the magma bubbles...
What is the magma chamber?
300
Volcanoes typically occur at convergent plate boundaries where an oceanic plate dives below a continental plate. This area, where volcanoes are 'born', has a specific name...
What is a subduction zone?
300
The Hawaiian Islands have many volcanoes - but Hawaii is not on the Ring of Fire. Hawaii's volcanoes are there because it is on a...
What is a "Hot Spot"?
300
One possible benefit volcanoes provide for people living near them.
What is fertile soil?
What is tourism?
400
This Asian country, made up of a chain of islands, is home to some of history's largest volcanic eruptions
What is Indonesia?
400
This is the bowl-shaped area that forms around the volcano's vent.
What is the crater?
400
There were only a few survivors in the eruption of this 1902 volcano in the Caribbean. One survivor escaped death because the prison cell he was in had walls thick enough to save him.
What is Mt Pelee?
400
Nyiragongo in the Democratic Republic of Congo has the world's largest one of these.
What is a lava lake?
400
The largest volcano in our solar system is on this planet.
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 an explosion of ash cinders and bombs from a violent volcanic eruption. It is responsible for most deaths in volcanic eruptions
What is a pyroclastic flow?
500
This is what forms when magma hardens in a volcanic pipe.