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Volcano Types
Nothing rhymes with volcano...
...or viscosity
Lab Rat
Trivia Lava
100
This type of volcano has gently sloping sides.
What is a "shield volcano"?
100
This is the name for a mixture of rock and ash that spews out of volcanoes.
What is "tephra"?
100
This is an example of a food item with low viscosity.
What is "water" or "runny batter"?
100
We used these metal balls to measure viscosity.
What are "fishing weights"?
100
This cold "island" at a divergent plate boundary is almost completely made up of volcanic rock.
What is "Iceland"?
200
The poor farmer in Mexico had one of these volcanoes pop up in his field!
What is a "cinder cone volcano"?
200
This volcanic feature is left after the steep sides of a volcano are eroded over time.
What is a "volcanic neck"?
200
This is another word to describe something with high viscosity.
What is "thick" or "sticky"?
200
In terms of viscosity, based on the information you gathered from your lab, oil was this compared to maple syrup.
What is "less viscous"?
200
This is the name for the volcanic neck you may see on the way to Santa Fe.
What is "Shiprock"?
300
These volcanoes are very tall and can be very explosive.
What are "composite volcanoes"?
300
Like a cork in a bottle, this volcanic feature can block the top of a volcano and then explode violently.
What is a "lava dome"?
300
Volcanoes with high viscosity lava are made out of this intrusive igneous rock. Kind of like the counter top.
What is "granite"?
300
In our viscosity lab, this liquid had the highest viscosity.
What is "hand sanitizer"?
300
Mount St. Helens is this type of volcano.
What is "composite"?
400
Volcanoes that form away from plate boundaries are called this.
What is "hot spots"?
400
This feature forms when lava flows through a channel and then cools below the surface.
What is a "lava tube"?
400
Adding this can sometimes reduce liquid viscosity.
What is "heat"?
400
These are the two reasons the volcanoes we made "exploded".
What is the "build up of pressure and the reaction between baking soda and vinegar"?
400
This is the oldest Hawaiian island.
What is "Kauai"?
500
On the Big Island of Hawaii, this volcano is an example of a shield volcano.
What is "Mauna Loa"?
500
When you ski in Mammoth, you are basically in one of these.
What is a "caldera"?
500
Volcanoes with low viscosity lava tend to be made out from this extrusive igneous rock.
What is "basalt"?
500
This type of volcano has lava with the viscosity of maple syrup.
What is "composite"?
500
The reaction of baking soda and vinegar yields this common gas.
What is "carbon dioxide"?