Volcanoes and Plate Tectonics
What is the major volcanic belt in the world?
Ring of Fire
Beneath a volcano, magma collects in a pocket called ________ _________.
Magma chamber
Composite Volcanoes
What is the most active volcanic region?
What is a weak spot in the crust where molten material, or magma comes to the surface?
A volcano
Volcanic belts form along the boundaries of Earth's _______.
Plates
Magma moves upward from a volcano through a ________.
pipe
Name 2 of the 4 landforms that are created by volcanic eruptions:
Shield volcano, cinder cone volcano, composite volcano, lava plateaus
What type of volcano is Mt. Fuji?
What is composite volcano?
When magma reaches the surface, it is called ______.
Lava
A volcano is created when plates _______ or when it is __________ beneath a continental plate.
collide, subducted
What helps push magma out of a volcano during an explosion?
gases
what is a shield volcano?
it has sides that are wide and flat
What type of volcano is Paricutin in Mexico?
What is cinder cone volcano?
A geyser
What is an area where material from deep within the mantle rises and then melts, forming magma?
A Hot spot
What two kinds of volcanic explosions are there?
quiet or explosive
What kind of volcano is small with steep angled sides, is built over a small period of time, and spits lava which falls on the sides of the volcano called?
What is a cinder cone volcano?
What type of volcano is Mauna Loa on the Big Island of Hwaii?
What is a shield volcano?
What is the material found in magma that is formed from the elements of oxygen and silicon.
Silica
What is a molten mixture of rock-forming substances, gases, and water from the mantel?
What is the classification of a volcano who does not currently have activity but shows signs of exploding or being active in the future?
What kind of volcano has lava which is too thick to flow a great distance and piles up at the vent?
What is a lava dome volcano
What type of volcano is often found inside the crater of other volcanoes?
What is a lava dome volcano?
What is a hardened magma pool called?
What is a batholith?