Types of Volcanoes
What are the 3 types of volcanoes
Composite (stratovolcano), cinder cone, shield
What is a pyroclastic flow?
Violent eruption of rocks, ash, smoke, and lava
Which volcano destroyed Pompeii and is known as the most dangerous volcano?
Mt. Vesuvius
What is Dante II?
Machine that studies volcanoes
Which type of volcano is the most violent and explosive?
Composite volcanoes
What are 3 things that can happen before a volcanic eruption
Earthquakes, tilt/bulging, increased gases
Which underwater volcano expanded the Hawaiian Islands?
Loihi
What is a dormant volcano?
It is not likely to erupt but can be possible
What are the ways volcanoes are classified by their activity?
Active, intermittent, dormant, extinct
How do volcanoes affect our climate? Explain.
Makes it cooler because ash in the air blocks sunlight
Which island was created quickly and is named after the volcano that created it?
Surtsey
Why do most volcanoes occur along plate boundaries?
Magma is able to push up through cracks in Earth’s crust
What type of lava do shield volcanoes have?
Liquidy, quiet-flowing lava
What are 3 effects of volcanic eruptions?
New land, destruction of land, mud flows, lava flows, climate change, ashfall
Science use the island of _____________ to study _____________
Surtsey, how plants and animals inhabited the land
What allows volcanic eruptions to occur away from plate boundaries?
Hot Spots underneath the Earth
What does it mean for volcanoes to be intermittent?
It erupts occasionally but not all the time