Volcano
A volcano that is erupting or has erupted recently.
What is active?
What happens to plates at a convergent boundary?
What is collide
How many types of volcanoes are there?
What are three(four if you include lava plateau).
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 are three things that volcanoes expel?
What are gases, ash, lava, cinders, or bombs
Magma is stored in this part of the volcano?
What is a magma chamber
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?
Molten rock that is under the earth's surface.
What is magma
What is created when two continental plates diverge?
What is rift valley?
A volcano with low and broad sides, and was formed by runny lava.
What is a shield volcano?
What is a shield volcano?
Hawaii formed over a mantle plume and is also known as this type of volcanic form.
What is a volcanic island chain?
This part of the volcano acts like a channel or pipe.
What is the conduit?
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?
This composite volcano destroyed the city of Pompeii in 79 AD.
What is Mount Vesuvius?
What are the adjectives we used to describe the types of eruptions caused by volcanoes?
What are mild, explosive, and violent?
A volcano that has not erupted in a while, but may erupt in the future.
What is dormant
Most volcanoes form along 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?
Pyroclastic flows, like the Mt St Helens eruption, are associated with this type of volcano.
What is a composite volcano?
The factors of magma that will determine the type of eruption to happen at a volcano.
What is viscosity (thick or thin), silica, temperature and gas content?