Types of Volcanoes
Volcano Parts
Volcanic Material
Volcanic Eruptions
Misc
100

A wide, gently sloping mountain made of layers of lava and formed by quiet eruptions.

What is a Shield Volcano
100
A cloud of ash formed by volcanic explosions.
What is an Ash Cloud?
100

Molten rock that erupts from a volcano that solidifies as it cools.

What is lava?
100

Relatively calm outpouring of lava which can release a huge amount of molten rock.

What are Non Exlposive eruptions?

100
Three stages of volcanoes.
What is an Active, Dormant or Extinct volcano?
200

This type of volcano has layers of ash and lava, also called a stratovolcano.

What is Composite Volcano?
200

An opening in Earth's surface through which volcanic materials escape.

What is the vent/side vent?
200
Particles produced in volcanic erutpions.
What is pyroclastic material?
200

A volcano that erupts violently if its magma is thick and sticky.

What is an explosive eruption?
200

Sand-sized particles of igneous rock that form when a spray of liquid magma is blown from a volcanic vent by escaping gas.

What is volcanic ash?
300
This type of volcano is a very steep hill or mountain shape.
What is a Cinder Cone volcano?
300
A large pool of molten rock beneath the surface of the Earth.
What is a Magma Chamber?
300
Pebble-like bits of magma that harden in the air.
What is Lapilli?
300
A place on Earth's surface that is directly above a column or rising, erupting magma.
What is a Hot Spot?
300
This material changes the thickness of lava.
What is silica?
400
These massive like depressions are the result of a hole left by the collapse of a volcanic mountain.
What is a Caldera?
400
A flat piece of rock formed when magma hardens in a crack in a volcano.
What is the sill?
400
Water vapor and toxic material that is released during a volcanic eruption?
What are gases?
400
These are two ways in which magma erupts.
What are Lava and Pyroclastic Material?
400

An area where a large number of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur in the basin of the pacific ocean.

What is the Ring of Fire?
500
The eruptions from these volcanoes lay down alternating layers of lava, ash and pyroclastic material?
What is Stratovolcano or Composite volcano?
500
The side of a volcano.
What is the flank?
500

Largest pyroclastic materials that are formed from solid rock that is blasted from the vent.

What are Volcanic Blocks?
500
What are the four major types of lava that erupts from volcanoes.
What are Blocky lava, Pahoehoe, Aa and Pillow lava?
500

The property of a liquid that describes how fast or slow lava will flow

What is viscosity?
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