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Volcanoes and Plate Tectonics
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California Geology
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A _______ is a weak spot in the crust where magma comes to the surface.
Volcano
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What are the parts of a volcano?
Magma chamber, pipe, vent, lava flow and craters.
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What is caldera?
A huge hole left by a collapse of a volcano
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What is a basin?
a broad bowl-shaped valley
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What is the color of the sky?
Blue
200
Where do most volcanoes form?
At colliding and spreading plate boundaries, mostly around the ring of fire.
200
What are the two types of eruptions?
Quiet and Expolsive
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What landforms do ash and lava form?
Sheild volcanoes, cinder cone volcanoes, composite volcanoes and lava plateaus.
200
What is a faukt in California?
San Andreas fault
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What is the food that is a circle and is topped with cheese and other toppings?
Pizza
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How do volcanoes on hot spots form?
When magma at a hot spot erupts through the crust and reaches the surface.
300
What properties of magma determine the type of eruption?
How much silica there is and if it is thin and runny or thick and sticky.
300
What landforms does magma make?
Volcanic necks, dikes, sills and batholiths.
300
What is a mountain range in California?
The Sierra Nevadas
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What does the Dairy in Pleasanton MAINLY sell?
Ice cream
400
Where is magma FIRST formed?
The asthenosphere
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What are volcanoes 3 stages of activity?
Active, dormant and extinct
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What type of rock do dikes and sills make?
Igneous intrusions
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What is a volcano in California?
Lassen Peak
400
What is pie (the food)?
The best desert in the whole world!
500
Volcanoes at coliding boundaries can make a string of islands called an __________.
Island arc
500
How does a geyser occur?
When rising hot water and steam become trapped in a crack and pressure builds untill it sprays out.
500
What is a composite volcano?
A tall, cone-shaped mountain where layers of lava alternate with layers of ash.
500
What are California's major geological features?
Faults, volcanones, mountain ranges and basins.
500
Who wrote the Hunger Games?
Suzanne Collins