Lava/Magma
Stuff on top of the surface that comes out of a volcano
What is Lava?
A volcano that is erupting
What is an alive volcano?
A broad domed volcano with gently sloping sides.
What is a Shield volcano?
Oceanic/Oceanic
Oceanic/Continental
Continental/Continental
What are Types of plate collisions?
The thing with lots of volcanoes in it. It spans all the way around the pacific ocean.
What is the ring of fire?
The hot stuff inside the volcano.
What is Magma?
A volcano that is going to erupt soon or just erupted
What is an active volcano?
The most common type of volcano.
What is cinder cone volcano?
Very deadly stuff that comes out of a volcano.
What is volcanic ash?
A deep-seated intrusion of igneous rock.
What is a Pluton?
Poky lava
What is Aa lava?
A volcano that cant erupt.
What is an extinct volcano?
Lava flows going over and over eachother.
How do volcanoes grow?
Cinders, ash, and volcanic bombs.
What are types of pyroclasts?
A landform created when volcanic magma hardens inside a vent on an active volcano.
What is a plug?
Smooth billowy surface lava
What is Pahoehoe Lava?
A volcano that hasn't erupted in a long time but still could erupt.
What is a dormant Volcano?
The boundaries between tectonic plates.
Where do most volcanoes form?
Icelandic
Hawaiian
Strambolian
Plenean
Plinian
What are types of eruptions least to greatest?
A large volcanic crater.
What is a Caldera?
A large blob of hot Magma material rising from deep within the Earth.
What is a Hotspot?
It can be caused by magma, gas, or other fluids pushing up the surface of earth.
How do volcanoes bulge?
Volcanic mountain range that rises from the Atlantic abyssal plain, extending from the Arctic to the Antarctic across the two hemispheres, ranging more than 16,000 km.
What is a mid-Atlantic Ridge Volcano?
They provide soil good soil, and they push diamonds to the top.
How are volcanoes important to creation?
An instrument used to measure the tilt of the earths surface.
What is a tiltmeter?