Movies from Class
This was the name of the fictional town threatened by a volcanic eruption in the 1997 film we watched
What is Dante's Peak?
This type of volcano has gentle slopes & is named after its shape
What is a shield volcano?
This volcano wiped out the town of Pompeii in 79 CE
What is Mount Vesuvius?
Called magma underground, this is the word used for the viscous material that has erupted from volcanoes
What is lava?
This is the scientific word for the "mouth" of a volcano (where lava, tephra, & gas come out)
What is a vent?
This was the name of the documentary we watched last week, featuring the footage from married volcanologists
What is Fire of Love?
The most active volcanic (and seismic) region of the world
What is the Ring of Fire?
This 1980 eruption coated the west coast in ash
What is Mount St. Helens?
What is effusive?
These features form when a magma chamber is emptying and the overlying ground collapses in
What is a caldera?
These are the two jobs of Rachel in Dante's Peak
What are mayor & coffee shop owner?
The type of magmatic eruption that releases fragmental (pyroclastic) material
What is explosive?
This hugely explosive volcano in Indonesia destroyed most of its island, and itself
What is Krakatoa?
This # is how long ago (in years) a volcano can erupt and still be considered active
What is 10,000?
The term for the tall cloud of tephra & gas emitted from an explosive volcano
What is an eruption column?
What is Krafft?
These volcano types are built out of layers of ash, cinders, & other eruptive material
What are cinder cone volcanoes?
The shield volcano that makes up most of Hawaii's Big Island
What is Mauna Loa?
This eruption type happens when groundwater is SUPERHEATED by a magmatic source
What is phreatic?
The channelway or passage, which may be pipe-shaped, that brings magma from the reservoir or chamber to the vent at the surface where it erupts
What is the conduit?
This is where Dalton, Rachel, & the kids were trapped when the eruption was in full force
What is the mine / Graham's hideout?
These tall volcanoes, sometimes called stratovolcanoes, are built of lava flows & pyroclastic deposits
What are composite volcanoes?
When it erupted in the Philippines in 1991, it cooled the air by 1 degree Fahrenheit for two whole years.
What is Mt. Pinatubo?
Also called hydrovolcanic; violently-explosive eruptions driven by steam explosions produced by the interaction of hot magma with water
What is phreatomagmatic?
An outpouring of molten rock from a vent onto Earth’s surface during an effusive volcanic eruption; also the resulting solidified body of rock
What is a lava flow?