Parts of a volcano
Types of Volcanoes
Volcano Facts
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Volcano of the Day
100
This collects in a chamber underneath the volcano.
What is lava?
100
A volcano that looks like a mound.
What is a shield volcano?
100
This is lava inside of the volcano.
What is magma?
100
The batter lava flowed faster when the side of the pan was_____.
What is steeper?
100
Kilauea is an active volcano in this state.
What is Hawaii?
200
A long tube in the ground that connects the magma chamber to Earth's surface.
What is a pipe?
200
This volcano forms from alternating layers of lava and ash.
What is a composite volcano?
200
This eruption has lava that gently oozes out of the volcano.
What is a quiet eruption?
200
In the jello volcano, you could view this part of a volcano through the jello.
What is a pipe, vent, or chamber?
200
This is a well known volcano in Japan.
What is Mt. Fuji?
300
Molten rock and gas leave the volcano through the top of the volcano or through this.
What is a side vent?
300
This volcano forms from thick lava that erupts explosively and creates very steep sides.
What is a cinder cone volcano?
300
This stage of a volcano is when the volcano is unlikely to erupt again.
What is extinct?
300
The difference between a QUIET and a EXPLOSIVE eruption.
What is the speed at which the lava flows out of the volcano?
300
Mauna Loa is best known for being this.
What is the largest volcano on Earth?
400
A bowl shaped area that forms around the volcano's central vent.
What is a crater?
400
Mauna Loa in Hawaii is this type of volcano.
What is a shield volcano?
400
This type of energy comes from using the heat that is created by the magma under the earth's surface.
What is geothermal energy?
400
Where volcanos are most likely to be found.
What are plate boundaries?
400
Mt. St. Helens had the largest eruption in the United States in the last 29 years and is located in this state.
What is Washington State?
500
Ash, cinders, gases, and rocks that are hurled out of the volcano during an explosive eruption?
What is a pyroclastic flow?
500
This volcano in Mexico is a cinder cone volcano.
What is Paricutin?
500
Pahoehoe is a type of_____________ in Hawaii.
What is lava?
500
A reason why scientists would want to know what type of eruptions a volcano has.
What is to evacuate people out of the area or to plan where the lave might go?
500
This volcano is known for having long eruptions.
What is Mt. Etna?
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