Who Am I?
Which of the following volcano hazards is made up of rocky particles about the size of a grain of sand?
What is ash?
The long, vertical tube in the ground that connects the magma chamber to Earth’s surface is this.
What is a pipe?
Before lava reaches the surface, the molten material has a special name.
What is magma?
The Hawaiian Islands formed from hot spots on the ocean floor from this type of volcano.
What is a shield volcano?
The order of the planets from the one closest to the sun.
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto?
Which type of rock would you expect to form as the result of an explosive eruption?
What is pumice?
A volcano that is unlikely to ever erupt again is considered to be ________________.
What is extinct?
The formation of the Hawaiian Islands is one example of volcanoes forming over a __________.
What is a hot spot?
The three types of volcanic mountains.
What is Shield, cinder cone and composite?
What is Mars?
Tall, cone-shaped mountains in which layers of lava alternate with layers of ash are called
What is composite volcano?
Paricutín in Mexico is this type of volcano.
What is a cinder cone volcano?
Magma that is forced across rock layers hardens into this type of landform.
What is a dike?
What is a Plateau?
Venus has many gently sloping shield volcanoes that can have this substance flow for over 6,800 kilometers!
What is lava?
When many layers of thin, runny lava build up a high, level area, the result is this.
What is lava plateau?
Once magma reaches the surface it becomes known as __________.
What is lava?
An eruption of ash, cinders, bombs, and gases from a volcano is called a(n) _________________________.
What is a pyroclastic flow?
Tall cone-shaped volcanoes.
Scientists believe that our moon's smooth areas were formed by ___________.
What is lava or lava flow?
2 planets in our solar system that show evidence of volcanic eruptions.
What is Mars and Venus?
During an eruption the _____________ in the magma 'rush' out carrying the hot magma with them.
When groundwater is heated by a nearby body of magma it rises to the surface and collects in a natural pool, this is called a ______________.
What is a hot spring?
When a magma chamber beneath a volcano becomes empty, if forms a mountain with a hollow shell, it then collapses inward. This is called a ___________.
What is a caldera?
What is Olympus Mons?