Types of Lava and Pyroclastic material
Types of Volcanoes
Parts and locations of Volcano
Eruptions
Misc.
100
What kind of viscosity does thick, pudding like lava have?
What is high viscosity?
100
What type of volcano forms from a combination of explosive and nonexplosive eruptions?
What is composite volcanoes?
100
Where does molten rock gather under the ground?
What is the magma chamber?
100
What would you expect to see during a nonexplosive eruption?
What is huge lava flows?
100
This is formed when magma hardens in a volcano's pipe and the surrounding rock.
What is a volcanic neck?
200
What is the consistency of lava with a low silica content like?
What is very runny?
200
What are the three main types of volcanoes?
What is shield, composite, and cinder cone? Also accept strato volcanoes.
200
What is the large depression called that forms when the magma chamber partially empties?
What is a caldera?
200
What is a volcano that has not erupted in a while but might erupt again called?
What is a dormant volcano?
200
Magma that forces itself across rock layers.
What is a dike?
300
What are large blobs of magma that harden in the air called?
What are volcanic bombs?
300
Repeated eruptions of lava creates _____.
What is a volcano?
300
What type of boundary is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge where volcanoes occur?
What is divergent?
300
What kind of volcano will probably never erupt again?
What is an extinct volcano?
300
Magma that squeezes between horizontal rock layers hardens.
What is a sill?
400
What type of Pyroclastic material can reach the upper atmosphere and circle the Earth for years?
What is ash?
400
Volcano that forms from nonexplosive eruptions:
What is a shield volcano?
400
About 5% of volcanoes on land form _______:
What is at hot spots?
400
What is most likely to happen if the water content of magma is high?
What is an explosive eruption will occur?
400
What does a tilt meter measure?
What is change in volcano's slope?
500
Pahoehoe, lapilli, Aa, and pillow are types of _____.
What is lava?
500
What is the volcano that forms from explosive eruptions?
What is a cinder cone volcano?
500
Places far from tectonic plate boundaries where volcanoes form are called ______:
What is hot spots?
500
What type of eruption can affect the climate?
What is an explosive eruption?
500
Bodies of hardened magma an create these landforms. This hardened magma pushes upward.
What is a dome mountain?
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