Vocabulary
The Myth
Types of Volcanoes
Volcano Facts
Hawaiian Islands
100
Lava that contains rough, angular fragments; it cools to be very jagged and sharp.
What is Aa (ah AH)?
100
Who is Pele?
What is Hawaiian Goddess of Fire?
100
What is a volcano no longer capable of erupting?
What is aextinct volcano?
100
How Volcanoes form.
What is a vent or crack in the earths plates when melted rock and gas explode?
100
The very lush and tropical eastern most and oldest of the major islands.
What is Kauai The Garden Island?
200
What is the study of volcanoes?
What is Volcanology?
200
Who loved Pele and wanted to marry her?
Who is Hog man?
200
What is an erupting volcano called?
What is an active volcano?
200
A type of lava that is very hot and fluid.
What is pahoehoe?
200
The smallest of the main Hawaiian islands abudent with a juicy yellow fruit.
What is Lanai the Pineapple Island?
300
What is magma that has reached the surface through a volcanic eruption?
What is lava?
300
Why did Hog Man want to kill Pele?
What is she would not marry him?
300
What is a steep, but small volcanic cone built entirely of loose fragmented material fom an explosive eruption?
What is a cinder cone volcano?
300
A volcano can sleep and is called _________between eruptions.
What is dormant?
300
More that twice as big as all the other islands combined. An island of volcanic drama.
What is Hawaii The Big Island?
400
What is a column of gases, ash and rock rising form a crater or vent?
What is an eruption cloud?
400
What was Hog Man's plan to make Pele come out of the mountain?
What is he built a fire to force them out of the cave?
400
What is a gently sloping volcano in the shape of a flattened dome made of lava flows?
What is a shield volcano?
400
A region of mountain building earthquakes and volcanoes that surround the Pacific is called____________.
What is the ring of fire?
400
The third largest island where chiefs ued to meet.
What is Oahu The Gathering Place?
500
What is a turbulent mixture of hot gases,ash, and other materials that move at a high speed like rivers destroyijng anything in their path?
What are pryoclastic flows?
500
Why do the island people tell the story of Pele?
What is to explain the natural power and unpredictability of volcanoes?
500
Volcanic mountain built by both lava flows and fragmented material.
What is a composite volcano?
500
A person who studies volcanoes is called a ________ and uses and instrument called __________ to help predict volcanic eruptions.
What is a volcanologist using a seismograph?
500
Hawaii's second largest island described as "the best".
What is Maui The Valley Island?