Types of Volcanoes
This volcano has gently sloping sides.
What is a shield volcano?
This is the point where the magma leaves the volcano's pipe.
What is the vent?
This is molten rock above ground.
What is lava?
This is what is located in the ocean that volcanoes can form over by creating islands.
What is a hot spot?
This is a volcano that is unlikely to erupt soon.
What is a dormant volcano?
This type of volcano has layers of ash and lava.
What is a composite volcano?
This is the narrow tube that rises from the magma chamber to the vent.
What is the pipe.
This is molten rock below ground?
What is magma
This is created when lava cools off the coast of an island.
What is new land?
This is when magma heats water underground and it is trapped. (Think Yellowstone)
What is a geyser?
This type of volcano is a very steep cone shaped hill or mountain.
What is a cinder cone volcano?
This is the large area underground where the magma is held.
What is the magma chamber?
These are the classifications of magma.
What is basaltic, granitic, and andesitic?
This is a danger of an explosive eruption. (Think Mt. St. Helens)
What is a landslide?
This is one benefit of volcanoes for life.
What is fertile soil?
This is how to classify if a volcano will be explosive or quiet when it erupts.
What is amount of water vapor, trapped gases, and type of magma?
This is the bowl shaped area that forms around the volcano's vent.
What is the crater?
This is fast moving hot lava.
What is pahoehoe?
This is a volcano that came from an eruption out of a hole in the ground in Mexico.
What is Paracutin?
This is where we find majority of volcanoes on Earth.
What is the Ring of Fire?
This is a hole left by the collapse of a volcanic mountain.
What is a caldera?
This is a crack that lava flows out which is not the main vent.
What is the side vent.
This is cooler and slower moving lava.
What is aa?
These are typically the trigger for volcanic eruptions.
What are earthquakes?
This is and explosion of ash cinders and bombs from a violent volcanic eruption.
What is a pyroclastic flow?