The hole at the top of a volcanoe is called a ___________.
What is a crater?
100
The seven large land masses that are part of our earth.
What is the continents.
100
An opening in the ground that reaches deep into the Earth.
What is a volcano
100
What is the hot, melted rock called when it is inside of the volcanoe?
What is magma.
100
The heat inside the earth is so great that it melts _____ that is called magma.
What is rock?
200
The storage place that holds the magma is called _________.
What is the magma chamber?
200
This is the inner most layer of the earth.
What is the inner core.
200
Red, hot melted rock.
What is lava.
200
What is it called once the magma flows out of the volcanoe?
What is lava?
200
The magma rises and then finally blasts its way up through the main vent and comes out of the _____________.
What is a crater?
300
The top layers of earth are made up of many pieces. These pieces are called __________________.
What are tectonic plates?
300
The layer of the earth that we walk and play on.
What is the crust.
300
What is it called when red, hot rock, ash, steam, and poisonous gases blast out of a volcano?
What is an eruption.
300
The top layers of the earth that are always moving very slowly and some times push up against each other are called what?
What is tectonic plates?
300
The lava from a volcano can be more than ________ degrees Fahrenheit.
What is 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit?
400
Some volcanoes start at the bottom of the sea. The ocean floor splits open and a volcanoe is formed. Over time the volcanoe will slowly grow taller than the ocean water. When this happen what does the volcanoe become?
What is an island?
400
This is the three dimensional shape of the earth.
What is a sphere.
400
Another name for lava.
What is magma.
400
What are the clouds made from that come from a volcanic eruption?
What is ash and poisonous gas?
400
Not every volcano produces lava. Some eruptions throuw out pieces of rock. The smallest pieces are known as ash. The biggest pieces are called ___________.
What are bombs?
500
Most volcanoes are forming around the pacific ocean. The volcanoes form a ring that is called the _________ __ ____.
What is the ring of fire?
500
The layer of the earth that is part liquid and solid rock.
What is the mantle.
500
This is formed when two tectonic plates hit up against each other and one plate slides under one of the plates forming an opening.
What is a volcano.
500
When a volcanoe is going to erupt the magma flows up this tube. What is the tube called?
What is a main vent?
500
Volcanoes can also produce great clouds of gas and steam. The gas has volcanic dust in it, so it looks like ________ _________.