Famous Faces
Type (not on the Keyboard!)
Volcano Features
Location, Location, Location!
Mixed Bag
100
This volcano, located in the Cascade Range in Washington State, erupted in May of 1980, killing 57 people.
What is Mount St. Helens?
100
This type of volcano has a narrow base and steep sides, and gets its name from the rocks and cinders that explode high into the air.
What is a cinder-cone volcano?
100
This part of a volcano, also known as the main vent, is where ash, cinders, and lava are released.
What is the throat?
100
75% of Earth's volcanoes are located in this region, an area that touches North and South America, Asia, and Australia.
What is the Ring of Fire?
100
This is a type of material that is released when a volcano erupts, oftentimes making everything in the surrounding area appear gray and smokey.
What is ash?
200
This volcano, located in Italy, is an example of a composite volcano.
What is Mount Etna?
200
This type of volcano looks like a tall cone-shaped mountain that is formed by forcing ash and cinders from its vent, and is followed by a quiet lava flow.
What is a composite volcano?
200
This is the name for lava that is still trapped below Earth's surface.
What is magma?
200
This is a region of volcanic activity located between Europe and northern Africa, and includes famous volcanoes such as Mount Etna and Mount Vesuvius, both in Italy.
What is the Mediterranean Belt?
200
The movement of these large masses of Earth's crust cause volcanic activity both on land and in water.
What are tectonic plates?
300
This volcano, located in Hawaii, is an example of a shield volcano.
What is Mauna Loa?
300
This type of volcano has gentle slopes and a wide, circular base which is formed when lava flows and cools over a large area.
What is a shield volcano?
300
This part of a volcano stems off from the main vent and carries magma out through the sides of the volcano.
What is a dike?
300
This term describes an area where two plate boundaries meet and one gets "sucked under" the other, causing the bottom plate to melt and form magma.
What is a subduction zone?
300
The build-up of this causes a volcano to erupt.
What is pressure?
400
This volcano, located in Pompeii, Italy, erupted for two days straight in AD 79, destroying the entire city and covering it in several feet of ash.
What is Mount Vesuvius?
400
This is the largest type of volcano.
What is a shield volcano?
400
This volcanic feature is a pool of magma that has become trapped inside the side of a volcano.
What is a sill?
400
This is an area where mantle material rises towards Earth's surface, forming magma that breaks through the crust to form a volcano in one specific location.
What is a hot spot?
400
When a volcano is about to erupt, sometimes the ground will shake, just as it does in this other type of natural disaster.
What is an earthquake?
500
This underwater volcano is an active volcano that is forming just east of Hawaii, and may eventually rise above the ocean to form a new island itself.
What is Loihi?
500
This type of volcano has the most violent, explosive eruptions.
What is a cinder-cone volcano?
500
This is a smaller cone that forms on a volcano when lava erupts through the side of the volcano.
What is a parasitic cone?
500
This is an area where tectonic plates move apart, large cracks in the Earth's crust form, and magma rises to fill the cracks. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is an example of this type of undersea region.
What is a rift zone? (May also accept Sea Floor Spreading)
500
Rock that melts and erupts from a volcano in what appears to be a bright orange river.
What is lava?
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