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Types of Volcanoes
Composite and Cinder
Magma/Lava
Shield Volcano
Other Stuff
100
This volcano has gently sloping sides.
What is a shield volcano?
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 a shield volcano is named after.
What is a Hawaiian soldier's shield?
100
This is a volcano that is is sleeping.
What is a dormant volcano?
200
This type of volcano has layers of ash and lava.
What is a composite volcano?
200
This is the narrow tube that rises from the magma chamber to the vent.
What is the pipe.
200
This is molten rock below ground?
What is magma
200
This is when magma squeezes between relatively horizontal layers of rock.
What is a sill?
200
This is a volcano that is currently erupting.
What is an active volcano?
300
This type of volcano is a very steep cone shaped hill or mountain.
What is a cinder cone volcano?
300
This is the large area underground where the magma is held.
What is the magma chamber?
300
This word is used to describe the thickness of lava.
What is viscosity?
300
This is when magma forces itself into a vertical crack and hardens.
What is a dike?
300
This is one benefit of volcanoes for life.
What is fertile soil?
400
This is caused by a volcano blowing off it's top.
A landslide
400
This is the bowl shaped area that forms around the volcano's vent.
What is the crater?
400
This is molten rock beneath the earth's surface.
What is magma?
400
This is a mass of rock that forms when a large body of magma cools inside the cust.
What is a batholith?
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
This is a crack that lava flows out which is not the main vent.
What is the side vent.
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 a volcano that has erupted in the past but not likely to erupt in the future.
What is an extinct volcano?