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Names of Volcanoes
Volcano Parts
Magma/Lava
Volcanic Landforms
Other Stuff
100
Yellowstone Caldera
What volcano was shown in the movie 2012?
100
This is the point where the magma leaves the volcano's pipe.
What is the vent?
100
This is molten rock above ground.
What is lava?
100
This is what forms when magma hardens in a volcanic pipe.
What is a volcanic neck?
100
This is a volcano that is unlikely to erupt soon.
What is a dormant volcano?
200
Mt. St. Helenes
What volcano erupted in 2000 and was the most economically and deadliest volcano in the United States?
200
This is the narrow tube that rises from the magma chamber to the vent.
What is the pipe?
200
Hot fluid or semifluid material below or within the earth's crust
What is magma?
200
This is when magma squeezes between relatively horizontal layers of rock.
What is a sill?
200
This is when magma heats water underground and it is trapped.
What is a geyser?
300
Mount Vesuvius
What's the other name for the volcano in the movie Pompeii?
300
This is the large area underground where the magma is held.
What is the magma chamber?
300
Material that changes the thickness of lava.
What is silica?
300
This is when magma forces itself into a vertical crack and hardens.
What is a dike?
300
Mt. Loa
What is the largest volcano in the world?
400
Mt. Etna
What's the name of the volcano that is one of three active volcanos today and is located in Italy along with Mt. Vesuvius?
400
This is the bowl shaped area that forms around the volcano's vent.
What is the crater?
400
Is fast moving hot lava.
What is pahoehoe?
400
This is a mass of rock that forms when a large body of magma cools inside the cust.
What is a batholith?
400
Venus and Mars
What are the two other planets with volcanos on them?
500
Mt. Rainier
This volcano could produce volcanic ash, lava flows, and avalanches of intensely hot rock and volcanic gases, called "pyroclastic flows."
500
This is a crack that lava flows out which is not the main vent.
What is the side vent?
500
Is cooler and slower moving lava.
What is aa?
500
These are smaller bodies of magma that form a feature by forcing layers of rock to bend upward.
What is a dome mountain?
500
This is and explosion of ash cinders and bombs from a violent volcanic eruption.
What is a pyroclastic flow?