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Famous Volcanoes
Parts of a Volcano
Types of Volcanoes
Layers of the Earth
Volcano Facts
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The composite volcano that had an explosive eruption on May 18, 1980. In this eruption, it lost most of one side.
What is Mt. St. Helens?
100
The top of the volcano. Where ash and lava come out of.
What is the crater?
100
Volcanoes with explosive, violent eruptions.
What are composite volcanoes?
100
The top layer of the Earth.
What is the crust?
100
The melted rock outside of a volcano is ___.
What is lava?
200
The most active volcano in North America.
What is Kilauea?
200
This rises up into the air above the volcano and can spread hundreds of miles after the eruption.
What is an ash cloud?
200
Volcanoes with thin, runny lava.
What is a shield volcano?
200
The mantle of the Earth can be compared to a food because of it's 2 layers of rock and it's "squishy" magma center. What food can it be compared to?
What is a peanut butter sandwich?
200
The molten rock inside of a volcano is _______.
What is magma?
300
It's eruption in 79 A.D. destroyed the Italian city of Pompeii.
What is Mt. Vesuvius?
300
Occur on the sides of a volcano and sometimes have lava and ash that come from them.
What are vents?
300
Volcanoes that are short in comparison to other volcanoes, but with the steepest sides.
What is a cinder cone?
300
The two layers of the Earth that are made up of metals.
What is the outer core and the inner core?
300
When a volcano is sleeping.
What is dormant?
400
In 1883, this Indonesian volcano violently erupted and killed nearly 36,000 people.
What is Krakatoa?
400
Molten rock inside the volcano.
What is magma?
400
Mt. St. Helens is a ____ volcano.
What is a composite?
400
List the layers of the Earth from outside to the inside.
What is crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core?
400
Mt. Mazama erupted 7,700 years ago creating ________.
What is Crater Lake?
500
This volcano had it's most recent eruption on October 26, 2013. It is located in Italy.
What is Mt. Etna?
500
The area where magma stays under the volcano until an eruption occurs.
What is the magma chamber?
500
Where you would find an example of a cinder cone volcano?
What is Mexico?
500
The inner core is in a solid state because there is too much ____ pushing on it to melt the inner core material.
What is pressure?
500
Most volcanoes in the world are located around the __________.
What is Ring of Fire?