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Plate tectonics
Types of Volcanoes
Parts of a Volcano
Names of Volcanoes
Vocabulary/definitions
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sheering
What is it when stress pushes a rock in the opposite direction?
100
Shield Volcano
What is the type of volcano that formed the Hawaiian Islands?
100
The Pipe
What is the tube where the magma rises to the earths' surface?
100
Mona Loa
What is the name of the volcano which formed the Hawaiian Islands?
100
A Vent
What is the opening of the volcano where, lava, ash and rock escape from a volcano?
200
divergent
What is the word that describes when two tectonic plates pull apart from each other?
200
Stata or Composite volcano
What is a highly explosive volcano which produces a pyroclastic flow?
200
The Vent
What is the top of the pipe where the ash and lava escape?
200
Mt. Fuji
What is the name of the volcano which has the highest elevation in Japan?
200
Define the word magma
What is hot molten rock that is below the earths' surface?
300
convergent
What is the word that describes when two tectonic plates move toward each other?
300
A cinder cone volcano
What is a volcano that can be violent, slow and the lava doesn't flow very far?
300
An Ash Cloud
What is the cloud that is formed when an eruption occurs?
300
Mt. Saint Helens
What is the active Dome Volcano found in the state of Washington?
300
Define the word pipe
What is the long tube that connects the magma chamber to the earths' surface?
400
Continental drift
What is the sideways movement in the tectonic plates which moves the continents?
400
A Lava Dome Volcano
What is a volcano which mildly erupts, has lava branches, in the side with low lava viscosity?
400
Pahoehoe
What is the type of lava that created the Hawaiian Islands?
400
Paricutin
What is the most famous cinder cone volcano that is located in Mexico and grew out of a corn field?
400
Define a "P" wave.
What is a wave that can travel both through liquids and solids?
500
tectonic plates
What is; what the earth sits on that moves constantly which can cause earthquakes or volcanoes?
500
A Caldera
What is an extinct volcano that is more than a mile across and filled with water?
500
Magma chamber
What is the base of the volcano called which contains the hot magma?
500
The Yellowstone Caldera
What is the name of the Super Volcano that is located on the boarders of Idaho and Montana?
500
Define the word eruption.
What is the blow out of gas, lava, ash and rock from a volcano?