definition
A opening in a volcano where lava and rock fragments erupt from. What is the word?
a) vent
b) Columnar joint
c) Flood basalt
a) vent
Fluid basaltic magma often builds sloping mountains. What is the formation?
a) Batholith
b) Shield volcano
c) crater
b) Shield volcano
Lava solidifies before the gas escapes, the bubbles are preserved in the rock as holes. What is the word?
Vesicle
What is similar to convergent boundaries?
convergent boundary
what is a famous volcano?
Mauna Loa in Hawaii
It is any large mass of intrusive igneous rock. What formation is it?
a) cinder
b) pluton
c) crater
b) pluton
A small volcano composed of pyroclastic fragments. What is the formation?
a) cinder cone
b) vesicle
c) Lava plateau
Cinder cone
As lava cools and solidifies cracks spread downward through the flow.What is the word?
Columnar joint
what is similar to subduction boundaries?
volcanos
what was the largest volcanic explosion?
Tambora is a stratovolcano in 1815
magma that flows between layers of country rock forms a sheet-like layer
Sill
It is formed over time caused by lava flowing, creating layers over a period of time making it get bigger over time. what is the word?
Stratovolcano
Volcanic fragments that vary in size from 4 to 32 millimeters. What is the word?
Cinder
What is similar to fault lines?
transform boundaries
how hot is lava?
between 1,300 to 2,200 degrees fahrenheit
Tiny fragments of glass that forms when liquid magma that explodes into the air. What is the word?
Volcanic ash
What is the definition?
Batholith
is a pluton exposed across more then 100 square kilometers of earth's surface
A fissure eruption that covers the landscape like a flood. What is the word?
Flood basalt
what is similar to divergent boundary?
mid-ocean ridge
how many volcanoes are there in the world?
more than 1,500
A rock formed from a volcano that erupts explosively that releases a combination of hot gas, liquid magma, and solid rock fragments.What is the word?
Pyroclastic rock
What is the definition?
Lava plateau
a fissure eruption that occurs in rapid succession
a large bowl-like depression that usually lies directly above the vent of a volcano. What is the word?
Crater
A small volcano composed of pyroclastic fragments. What is the word?
Cinder cone
volcano eruptions affect the climate. True or false?
true