Types of Volcanoes
What is Shield Volcano?
a bursting forth or out, as of lava from a volcano
What is Eruption?
When two of Earth's plates collide together
What is Convergent Plates?
The country where the volcano formed in the farmer's field?
What is Mexico?
The name of the volcano that buried Pompeii
What is Mt. Vesuvius?
The simplest type of volcano
What is Cinder Cone
fine particles of rock dust blown from an explosion vent
What is Ash?
When two of Earth's plates spread away from each other
What are Divergent Plates?
What was so common in Paricutin that no one paid attention to them
What are tremors
In what country was Pompeii?
What is Italy?
The largest kind of volcano
What is Composite Volcano
volcanoes that have not erupted in a long time but are expected to erupt again in the future.
What is Dormant Volcano?
where magma pushes up through the Earth's crust where there is no plate present
What is a Hot Spot?
This volcano is owned and operated by Dionisio Pulido
What is the sign left by the farmer whose farm "grew" the volcano
The name given to the thirteen bodies archeologists found on the edge of Pompeii?
What are the Fugitives?
Another name for a composite volcano
What is a stratovolcano
those which have not erupted in human history
What is Extinct Volcanoes?
where the Earth's plates move away from each other underwater.
The only state in the United States that continues to grow
What is Hawaii?
the baby that archeologists thought was 8 years old
What is the Farmer's Daughter?
The famous shield volcano in Hawaii
What is Mauna Loa
a volcano that is erupting or considered likely to do so in the future.
What is an Active Volcano?
At a convergent boundary where one plate goes under another plate
What is Subduction zone?
What ancient scientists believed volcanoes were
What are burning mountains of fire.
the rocks that "rained" down on Pompeii most of the first day and all through the night
What are Pumice Stones?