Positives
Negatives
types & eruptions
How scientists study volcanoes.
Vocabulary
100
What what did volcanoes provide to the environment?
they provide fresh and fertile soil to the land.
100
What is one thing lava can do to a landscape?
They can burn anything it touches and destroy animal habitats.
100
What type of eruption oozes out huge amounts of lava and nothing else?
non-explosive.
100
How do Volcanologists study volcanoes? A) They send drones (robots) to investigate B) They go out by foot it see whats going on inside the volcano C) They use seismographs
The answer is C
100
What is lava that not yet erupted called?
Magma
200
What are the positives of the education of a volcanic eruption?
It helps scientists learn about our world so we could be aware of our surroundings and explore more mysteries of our earth.
200
What can the ash do?
The ash can cover houses and cars crushing them while getting inhaled into your lungs.
200
What volcano is shaped like a cone?
Cinder cone / strato
200
Volcanologists consider lava as the substance that came out of the volcano, What do they determine lava when it is inside the volcano?
Magma
200
What does a volcano shoot into the air made out of ash, after it erupts?
Ash cloud
300
What is a positive of volcanic destruction?
It will bring in the new and destroy the old to create a brand new ecosystem.
300
What can the gases do?
The gases that come out of volcanoes are deadly like carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide they can mess up you lungs.
300
What is the most common volcano on the Hawaiian islands?
Shield volcano.
300
What is one clue that tells a scientist that a volcano is about to erupt?
There is a bulge in the side of the volcano when it is about to burst.
300
This is what happens when one plate goes under another plate.
Subduction
400
A volcanic eruption may be cruel but could be a good way to get extra money, how?
The economy can use the minerals ejected from the volcano to sell for money.
400
What is a pyrolastic flow?
It is a HOT cloud of ash and gases that knocks over everything in its path.
400
What type of volcano is the most common and the most dangerous?
composite.
400
What are the three stages of volcanoes?
Active, dormant and extincted.
400
This disaster can go at 124 mph, after an eruption. It is made out of ash and hot gasses.
Pyroclastic flow
500
What would happen if there were never any volcanoes?
The earth would be covered in water there would be no land nor producer at all, the earth would be life less with no land living life forms.
500
What are the rocks the size of boiling balls and incased in a fire ball called?
cinders or bombs
500
Mount Saint Hellenes was one of the BIGGEST eruptions in the 20th century, scientists classified this eruption as ____
Explosive!
500
At divergent boundaries magma comes out from under ground and melts into a ridge of volcanoes that are small hot springs. A strange habitat could form with many different animals. Name a animal that could live here?
Tube worms, Giant clams, Spider crabs, lobsters and eel spouts.
500
This layer of the earth is 5 to 100 kilometers thick.
Crust
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