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Types of Volcanoes
Volcano Parts
What Comes Out of A Volcano
Miscellaneous
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 a volcano that can erupt at any time.
What is an active volcano?
200
These mountains form as blocks of rock move up or down along normal faults.
What is a fault-block mountain?
200
This is the narrow tube that rises from the magma chamber to the vent.
What is the pipe?
200
This is molten rock underneath the ground.
What is magma?
200
This is when magma heats water underground and it is trapped.
What is a geyser?
300
A mountain that forms as continental crust crumples and bends into folds.
What is a folded mountain?
300
This is the large area underground where the magma is held.
What is the magma chamber?
300
This material changes the thickness of lava and determines how it flows.
What is silica?
300
This is one benefit of volcanoes for life.
What is fertile soil or adding land?
400
This type of volcano is cone-shaped and has steep sides made of a loose pile of rock fragments that pile up around a single crater.
What is a cinder cone volcano?
400
This is the bowl shaped area that forms around the volcano's vent.
What is the crater?
400
A dense cloud of superheated gases and rock fragments that moves at high speeds downhill from an erupting volcano.
What is pyroclastic flow?
400
A feature that release steam from the surface of the ground.
What is a fumarole?
500
A cone-shaped volcano that is built up of layers of lava AND layers of rock fragments.
What is a composite volcano?
500
A huge crater formed by the collapse of a volcano when magma rapidly erupts from underneath it.
What is a caldera?
500
This is cooler and slower moving lava.
What is aa?
500
Lava that moves slowly enough where people can move away and not be hurt.
What is a lava flow?