Chapter 10 - Volcanoes

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100

A mountain formed of lava and/or pyroclolstic material.

What is a volcano?

200

The depression at the summit of a volcano.

What is a crater?

300

What are the 3 types of volcanoes?

Sheild Volcanoes, Cinder cones, and Composite cones.

400

What does additional water do to the melting temperature of rock?

lowers it 

500

What an examples of a shield volcano?

Hawaii

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100

Honey has ____________ viscosity.

HIGH 

200

The tube that connects the magma chamber to the vent. 

Conduit

300

What is pyroclastic material?

Is the name given to produced in volcanic eruption

400

When a volcano has a high amount of dissolved gas it has a ________ eruption.

explosive

500

What type of volcanoes are built from ejected lava frasments?

Cinder Cones

3

100

Mount St. Helens is what kind of volcano? 

Composite Cone 

200

A pocket of magma found far from a plate boundary is called 

a hot spot

300

What type of eruption does a composite cone have? 

explosive

400

An opening in the surface of earth through which molten rock and gases are released is called?

vent

500

What are the 3 types of volcanic material?

Lava flow, Gases, and Pyroclastie