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 pipe.
What is the vent?
100
This is molten rock above ground.
What is lava?
100
This is what forms when magma hardens in a volcanic pipe.
What is a volcanic neck?
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
This is when magma squeezes between relatively horizontal layers of rock.
What is a sill?
200

This is when a fountain of water and steam builds up pressure underground and erupts at regular intervals.

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 aspect of a supervolcanic eruption makes it the most deadly.

What is particles and gases are quickly released into the air?

300
This is formed by magma slanting through bedrock sideways.
What is a dike?
300

These are the 3 ways volcanoes are formed.

What is over a hot spot, at convergent, or divergent boundaries?

400

This is a string of islands formed by the volcanoes along a deep-ocean trench.

What is an island arc?

400
This is the bowl shaped area that forms around the volcano's vent.
What is the crater?
400

The Hawaiian islands are an example of volcanoes formed this way.

What is over hot spots?

400

Most volcanoes are found here.

What is on or near plate boundaries?

400

Scientists hundreds of years ago believed that volcanoes were this.

What are burning mountains of fire?

500
This is a hole left by the collapse of a volcanic mountain.
What is a caldera?
500

This is rock fragments ejected from a volcano.

What is lapilli?

500

This type of volcano has craggy knobs or spines over the volcanic vent. 

What is a lava dome?

500

This is how volcanoes form at divergent boundaries.

What is magma fills in the gaps where the plates move apart?

500
This is and explosion of ash cinders and bombs from a violent volcanic eruption.
What is a pyroclastic flow?
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