Types of Volcanoes
Volcano Parts
Magma/Lava
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 conduit.
What is the vent?
100
This is molten rock above ground.
What is lava?
100
These are 2 processes that allow igneous intrusions, which form underground, to become exposed on the surface of the earth.
What are uplift and erosion?
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 conduit?
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 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?
400
This is the typically the most explosive type of volcano.
What is a composite 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 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
This is the largest mountain in the Solar System
What is Olympus Mons?
500
This is the name of the solidified lava that falls from an erupting volcano.
What is tephra?
500
This is cooler and slower moving lava.
What is aa?
500
These are 'baby batholiths."
What is a laccolith?
500
This is and explosion of ash cinders and bombs from a violent volcanic eruption.
What is a pyroclastic flow?
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