Volcano
A volcano that is erupting or has erupted recently.
What is active?
What to plates do at a convergent boundary?
What is collide
How many types of volcanoes are there?
What are four.
This is the most active volcanic region on Earth and is located around the rim of the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Ring of Fire?
What is magma called when it is on the earth's crust?
What is lava?
What three things do volcanoes expel?
What are gasses, ash, and lava
What do plates do at a divergent boundary?
What is divide
A volcano is with tall, steep sides and was built by alternating layers of lava and ash and can create explosive eruptions.
What is a composite volcano?
Mt. Fuji is this type of volcano.
What is composite volcano?
A volcano that forms over a mantle plume in the middle of oceanic or continentl crust.
What is a hot spot volcano?
What is molten rock that is under the earth's surface?
What is magma
What is created when two continental plates divide?
What is rift valley
A volcano with low and broad sides, and was formed by runny lava.
What is a shield volcano?
The volcano in Paricutin, Mexico is an example of this kind of volcano.
What is cinder cone volcano?
Hawaii formed over a mantle plume and is also known as this type of volcanic form.
What is a volcanic island chain?
The main part of a volcano where magma erupts onto the earth's surface.
What is the vent?
What is created when two oceanic plates diverge?
What is mid-ocean ridge?
A kind of volcano is small with steep sides, formed from explosive eruptions, and made from layers of ash and cinders.
What is a cinder cone volcano?
What type of volcano is Mauna Loa on the Big Island of Hwaii?
What is a shield volcano?
Japan and the Aluetian Islands are examples of this type of volcanic land which forms over a convergent boundary.
What is a volcanic island arc?
What is a volcano called that hasn't erupted in 100,000 years?
What is dormant
Most volcanoes form at these points on Earth.
What are plate boundaries?
This forms after a volcano has erupted and the center has collaposed to leave a hole which can fill with water.
What is a caldera?
This high, flat ridge is formed from thin, runny lava which erupts from fissures in the Earth's crust.
What is a lava plateau?
What is viscosity (thick or thin), silica, temperature and gas content?