Volcanic Landforms
An area of land that forms a peak at a high elevation.
What is a mountain.
The action of lava coming out of a hole or crack in Earth's surface, the sudden release of hot gasses or lava built inside a volcano.
What is to erupt?
To change a substance from a solid to a liquid.
What is to melt?
Earth's crust , both beneath the oceans and continents, as well as the mantle and inner and outer core.
What is geosphere?
An opening in the Earth's surface through which magma and gases erupt, or only gases erupt.
What is a volcano?
Melted rock on Earth's surface.
What is lava?
The temperature at which a solid turns into a liquid.
What is melting point?
A natural cycle in which carbon compounds, mainly carbon dioxide, are incorporated into living tissue through photosynthesis and returned to the atmosphere by respiration, decay of dead organisms, and the burning of fossil fuels.
What is the carbon cycle?
Rounded Hill formed by slow moving, and cooling lava.
Turned from solid to liquid by heat, molten rock flows as lava from a volcano.
What is molten?
A state of matter with a defined volume but no defined shape.
What is a liquid?
The top of an object, the outside of an object, or the boundary between two objects.
What is the surface?
A fountain of hot water and steam that erupts from the ground.
What are geysers?
Melted rock located beneath Earth's surface.
Two or more atoms joined together.
What is a molecule?
The area of the pacific where most volcanoes occur.
What is the Ring of Fire?