Volcano Fun Facts
The largest active volcano in the world.
What is Mauna Loa in Hawaii?
Mt. St. Helen is this type of volcano.
What is composite volcano (or stratovolcano)?
The belt of tectonic plates that most volcanoes are along?
What is the Ring of Fire?
Someone who studies volcanoes
What is a Volcanologist or Geologist?
Another name for volcanic smog. It forms when a volcano erupts and releases gases into the atmosphere.
What is vog?
This country has the greatest number of active volcanoes in the world.
What is Indonesia?
The Roman town of Pompeii was destroyed by.
What is Mount Vesuvius?
What ocean does the Ring of Fire circle?
What is the Pacific Ocean?
Super hot melted rock that is underground.
What is magma?
A numerical scale for expressing the magnitude of an earthquake on the basis of seismograph oscillations.
What is the Ritcher Scale?
The number of volcanoes in the United States.
What is 169?
What killed most of the people during the AD 79 Pompeii disaster.
What is a pyroclastic surge?
Or a big cloud of lava, dust, rocks, hot ash, and sulfuric gas.
Along the boundaries of what, do 60% of active volcanoes occur?
What are the tectonic plates? Converging AND Diverging!
Most volcanoes, like most earthquakes, occur along the boundaries between shifting tectonic plates.
White or grey stuff that billows out of a volcano
What is volcanic ash?
Name the 3 stages of a volcano's life.
What are active, dormant, and extinct Volcanoes?
This is the number of volcanic hotspots in the world.
What is 40-50?
What modern day country is Pompeii located in?
What is Italy?
What is the deadliest and most destructive volcano event in US history?
What is Mt. St. Helens?
Super hot melted rock that flows out of a volcano.
What is lava?
The three main classifications (types) of volcanoes. Name all.
What are cinder cone volcanoes, composite volcanoes, and shield volcanoes?
The largest volcano in the Solar System.
What is Olympus Mons on Mars?
The Armero Tragedy refers to the eruption of this volcano
What is the Nevado Del Ruiz?
What circled the Earth within 15 days after Mt. St. Helens' eruption back in 1980?
What is Ash?
Rock formed when magma cools and solidifies.
What is Igneous Rock? If you said intrusive, take an extra 200 points!
What Roman God is the word volcano named after?
What is Vulcan?