Volcano Types
Do composite cone volcanoes have large eruptions?
What is no.
What does melting mean?
What is the rock melting into magma.
Where is the magma chamber located in a volcano?
What is in the lower center of the volcano.
What does the word metamorphic mean?
What is metamorphic means to change form.
What does weathering mean?
What is when a rock is being worn down by the climate or weather.
What type volcano has a calm and slow eruption?
What are shield volcanoes.
How are sedimentary rocks formed?
What is when sediments from other bodies get buried and pressured together to form a rock.
How are volcanoes formed?
What is when one tectonic plate moves under another and pushes it up. Then magma moves closer to the surface.
What rock can form to become magma?
What is all of them.
What does foliated mean?
What is foliated means to have stripes or bands on the rocks.
What type of volcano would be the worst (for your life) to run into?
What is a cinder cone volcano.
How does igneous and sedimentary rock turn into metamorphic rock?
What is both with heat and pressure.
What spews out from an erupting volcano including ash and smoke?
What is water vapor.
What is an example of sedimentary rock?
What is sandstone, limestone, and shale.
How much of the Earth’s surface have volcanoes created?
What is 80% or more.
What type volcano erupted in Mount St. Helens?
What is composite cone volcanoes
What temperature does it have to be to get an igneous rock to melt into magma?
What is 1,100-2,400 degrees Fahrenheit
What happens when the lava cools and forms igneous rock on the volcano?
Describe an extrusive igneous rock.
What is extrusive igneous rocks are made from magma and fine grained.
What is the difference from extrusive and intrusive igneous rock?
What is extrusive is cooled on the Earth’s surface and intrusive is cooled underground.
What type of volcano was in Mauna Loa, Hawaii?
What is shield volcanoes.
What is one process in the rock cycle that all rocks can go back into?
What is slow uplift to the surface?
How are cinder cones volcanoes formed?
What is ash, cinders, and dust.
What is the difference between metamorphic and sedimentary rock?
What is they are not made from particles of existing rock but instead the rock itself.
What type of volcano erupted in New Zeland?
What is Composite Cone Volcanoes