Types Of Volcanoes
This type of volcano is sometimes referred to as a stratovolcano.
What is a composite volcano?
Lava is a type of molten rock above the surface but this type of molten rock is below the surface.
What is magma?
A mountain having a crater from which molten rock is emitted.
What is a volcano?
These are fracture in the earth where movement has occured.
What are faults.
All earthquakes trigger tsunamis. True or false?
What is false?
The simplest type of volcano.
What is a cinder cone?
These two things make up Silica.
What are silicon and oxygen?
The term for the depression at the top of a volcano.
What is a crater?
The study of earthquake waves.
What is seismology?
Which factors besides and earthquake can cause a tsunami. Name one other factor.
What are volcanic eruptions, underwater landslides, or meteorite crashes.
Type of volcano built almost entirely of liquid lava flows in a broad shape.
What is a shield volcano?
These three materials come from volcanoes.
What are tephra, gas, and lava?
Rivers of lava moving downslope.
What are lava flows?
Tool used to measure earthquakes.
What is a seismograph?
This is the name of the region where most tsunamis occur.
What is ring of fire?
Type of round and steep-sided volcano where lava doesn't flow very far from vent.
What is a lava dome?
The name of the god of fire from which the word volcano comes from.
Who is Vulcan?
The region beneath a volcano where molten rock is stored.
What is a magma chamber?
The three type of stress which can happen to tectonic plates.
What are tension, compression, and shearing?
This is how fats tsunamis can travel up to.
What is 500 mph?
Forms a huge bowl shape.
What is a caldera?
The term Nuée Ardente is French for this English phrase.
What is glowing incandescence?
Largest particle type of tephra which are launched from volcano vent.
What are volcanic bombs?
Three or more seismographs can be used to find the location of an earthquake and this process is called this term.
What is triangulation?
Tsunami means this phrase in Japanese.
What is a harbor wave.