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What?
Why?
Who?
When?
100
This is the location of a volcano we learned about in this program.
What is Italy, Yellowstone, Ring of Fire, Indonesia, Iceland, Hawai’i, Costa Rica, Mexico, Japan, Pacific Northwest (Washington), or Alaska?
100
This is a large feature formed when a magma chamber empties and the overlying ground collapses.
What is a caldera?
100
A decrease in this can lead to a volcanic eruption.
What is pressure?
100
This volcanic resource can be used as an alternate form of heat and energy.
What is geothermal energy?
100
This is the term for a person who studies volcanoes.
What is a volcanologist?
200
This scientific theory explains why volcanoes and mountains exist.
What is plate tectonics?
200
A lahar is a type of this caused by volcanic activity.
What is a mudslide?
200
This substance is exsolving from magma as a volcano erupts.
What is gas?
200
This individual is the Hawai’ian goddess of fire and volcanoes.
Who is Pele?
200
Levels of these two gases can indicate that a volcano is growing more active.
What are carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide?
300
This type of plate boundary commonly forms volcanoes such as those found along the Western edge of South America.
What is a convergent boundary or subduction zone?
300
Hawai'i is an example of this type of volcano, which erupts more quietly than others.
What is an effusive volcano?
300
This term is used to refer to hot, molten rock within the Earth.
What is magma?
300
This volcanic resource is extremely nutrient-rich.
What is soil or dirt?
300
This moving and shaking can indicate volcanic activity on the horizon.
What are earthquakes?
400
This feature explains the existence of the Hawai’ian islands.
What is a hot spot?
400
This fast-moving cloud of hot ash is what killed the residents of Pompeii.
What is a pyroclastic flow?
400
These two common substances, when combined, produce a reaction similar to that of an erupting volcano.
What are Diet Coke and Mentos?
400
This sharp volcanic stone, actually a glass, was a precious resource to the people of Mexico and Central America.
What is obsidian?
400
Yellowstone National Park is famous for these features, which indicate that the region is still volcanically active.
What are hydrothermal features, geysers, or hot springs?
500
This is a continuous chain of volcanoes circling the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Ring of Fire?
500
These are two factors that affects the viscosity of magma.
What are chemical composition (namely silica) and temperature?
500
This common chemical reaction, while often used to simulate volcanic eruptions, is not accurate.
What is baking soda and vinegar?
500
This is a country whose people were very recently affected by a violent volcanic eruption.
What is Indonesia (Mt. Sinabung)
500
Prior to an eruption, the land surface around the site is often observed doing this.
What is rising?