Types of Volcanoes
Vocabulary
Locations
Fissures and Craters
Fill in the Blank
100
This type of volcano has a broad base and gently sloping sides.
What is shield volcano
100
Any place where gas, ash, or melted rock comes out of the ground.
What is a volcano.
100
Pyroclastic materials can be ejected [as far as] here.
What is the atomsphere.
100
These happen when lava flows from giant cracks, or fissures, in Earth's surface.
What is fissure eruptions
100
Not all volcanoes actively erupt. Many are ____ , meaning an eruption has not occurred in a long period of time.
What is dormant
200
Describe a composite volcano.
What is alternating layers of hardened lava flows and pyroclastic materials create composite volcanoes.
200
The opening of a volcano.
What is a vent.
200
Name as many volcanic landforms as you can.
What is shield volcanoes, cinder cones, composite volcanoes, lava plateaus, craters, and calderas.
200
What is an opening or depression at the top of a volcano caused by eruptions?
What is volcanic crater
200
____ is magma that has reached Earth's surface.
What is lava
300
What is an active volcano?
What is a volcano that is currently erupting or is likely to erupt in the near future.
300
What are the 3 types of volcanic mountain?
What is shield volcanoes, cinder cones, & composite volcanoes.
300
Volcanoes can form at this type of plate boundary where two plates are moving away from each other.
What is divergent plate boundaries
300
This can form from the sudden drain of a magma chamber during an explosive eruption or from a slowly emptied magma chamber.
What is caldera
300
Volcanoes can form at ____ ____ or within the middle of a plate.
What is plate boundaries
400
What is an extinct volcano?
What is a volcano that is no longer active and hasn't erupted in historical times.
400
What is the difference between magma and lava?
What is magma is melted rock, and/but lava is melted rock that has reached Earth's surface.
400
The Ring of Fire is a name used to describe this.
What is the numerous explosive volcanoes that form on convergent boundaries surrounding the Pacific Ocean.
400
A thick and mostly flattened layer of cooled lava.
What is a lava plateau
400
Shield cones, fissure eruptions, and cinder cones can also occur away from plate boundaries within a plate at ____ ____.
What is hot spots
500
What is a submarine volcano?
What is underwater fissures in the Earth's surface from which magma can erupt.
500
:BONUS!: ( If you get this one right it doubles your points!) Giant sections of lithosphere on Earth's surface.
What is tectonic plates.
500
These type of volcanoes are most common along convergent plate boundaries where ocean plates subduct.
What is composite volcanoes
500
This famous volcano is in Oregon.
What is Mount Mazama
500
More than ____ years ago, the cone of Mount Mazama in Oregon collapsed to form a caldera.
What is 7,000
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