Types of Volcanoes
Volcanoes entirely formed from the fluid lava that also acts as a shield.
What are Shield Volcanoes?
Lava before it is erupted from a volcano.
What is magma?
Liquid rock that comes out of the volcano.
What is Lava?
Place where most of Earth's volcanoes take place.
What is the Ring of Fire?
Pieces of the Earth’s surface that fit together like a jigsaw.
What are Tectonic Plates?
Generally steep sided cones of basalt fragments.
What are Cinder Cones?
Approximate temperature of lava.
What is 1000°C?
Fine particles of rock blasted out of the volcano.
What is Ash?
Ring of fire location.
What is the Circum-Pacific Belt?
Opening in the Earth’s surface from which magma, gas, and ash can erupt and escape.
What is a Volcano?
Steep sided and low mounds formed of lava fragments that form a linear fissure.
What are Spatter cones?
Lava cools in what amount of time.
What is more than 130 days?
Large rocks that are fired out of the volcano.
What are Volcanic Bombs?
How much of the Earth’s Volcanoes are in the Ring of Fire?
What is ⅔ of Earth’s volcanoes?
¾ of all volcanoes are located.
What is Underwater?
Volcano formed when there is a change in the eruptive nature of the volcano or the main vent area.
What is Complex Volcano?
Volcano eruption that gave lava its name.
What is Mount Vesuvius?
Where the volcano continuously sprays out lava.
What is a Lava Fountain?
Ring of fire is caused by.
What is Lots of Tectonic Plate Movement?
40,000km horseshoe-shaped area in the Pacific Ocean and is home to 90% of all volcanoes on Earth.
What is the Ring of Fire?
Volcano made of composite strata or layered structure is formed due to the eruptive material.
What are Composite or Strato-volcanoes?
Hottest form of lava.
What is Mafic?
Water trapped in the rocks is super heated as the magma rises and escapes through cracks or vents in the volcano.
What is a Phreatic Eruption?
Amount of continents that are in/touch the Ring of Fire.
What is four?
At 4,169m tall the world’s largest active volcano.
What is the Mauna Loa?