Types of Volcanoes
Cooling Lava/Magma
Magma/Lava
Igneous Rocks
Other Stuff
100
This volcano has gently sloping sides.
What is a shield volcano?
100
Magma that cools beneath the ground.
What is intrusive?
100
This is molten rock above ground.
What is lava?
100
This type of texture is because of rapid cooling.
What is glassy?
100
This is the largest volcano in our solar system on Mars.
What is Olympus Mons?
200
This type of volcano has layers of ash and lava.
What is a composite or stratovolcano?
200
Magma that will take a VERY long time to cool underground.
What is plutonic.
200
This is molten rock below ground?
What is magma
200
This texture has lots of holes because of trapped gas.
What is vesicular?
200
This is the most active region on Earth for volcanoes.
What is Ring of Fire/Pacific Ocean/Pacific Plate?
300
This type of volcano is a very steep cone shaped hill or mountain.
What is a cinder cone volcano?
300
Lava that will cool above ground quickly.
What is extrusive?
300
This material/compound changes the thickness of lava.
What is silica?
300
Texture of rock that has both large and small crystals.
What is Porphyritic?
300
This is one benefit of volcanoes for life.
What is fertile soil?
400
This type of boundary has the most volcanoes and the most explosive volcanoes.
What is convergent boundary?
400
This type of cooling will produce large crystals.
What slow cooling?
400
This type of lava is very hot, mafic and very runny?
What is basalt?
400
Difference between fine-grained and coarse-grained igneous rock.
What cooling time?
400
These two other planets have extinct volcanoes similar to earth.
What is Venus and Mars?
500
This is a hole left by the collapse of a volcanic mountain.
What is a caldera?
500
The area of magma below a volcano.
What is magma chamber?
500
This lava is low in temp, felsic and very viscous.
What is rhyolite?
500
The latin "ignis" means.
What is fire-born?
500
This moon has the most active volcanoes.
What is Io?