Volcanoes and Plate Tectonics
Properties of Magma
Volcanic Eruptions
Volcanic Landforms
Potpourri
100

This is a weak spot in the Earth's crust where magma comes to the surface.

What is a volcano?

100

Water is this, a substance made of two or more elements that have been chemically combined.

What is a compound?

100

Beneath a volcano, magma collects in a pocket called this.

What is a magma chamber?

100

A volcanic mountain made up of volcanic ash, cinders, and bombs is called this.

What is a cinder cone?

100

This is a famous children's cartoon.  

What is Caillou?

200

When magma reaches the surface, it is called this.

What is lava?

200

This kind of property is any property that produces a change in the composition of matter.

What is a chemical property?

200

These are the two main types of volcanic eruptions.

What are quiet and explosive?

200

The collapse of a volcano's magma chamber may produce this.

What is a caldera?

200

This planet is closest to the sun.

What is Mercury?

300

The volcanoes that form along the rim of the Pacific Ocean are known as this.

What is the Ring of Fire?

300

A liquid with this type of viscosity will flow slowly.

What is high viscosity?

300

These are the three stages of volcanic activity.

What are active, dormant, and extinct?

300

This will form where thin, runny lava flows out of long cracks in the ground. It erupts from a wide area and spreads out.

What is a lava plateau?

300

This beautiful person rejected Echo and fell in love with his own reflection.

Who is Narcissus?

400

This is formed at a converging boundary where one oceanic plate sinks beneath another oceanic plate.

What is an island arc?

400

This physical property is the resistance of a liquid to flowing.

What is viscosity?

400

This type of volcano is unlikely to erupt again.

What is an extinct volcano?

400

Magma that hardens between layers of rock forms this.

What is a sill?

400

This is a geographic coordinate that specifies the north–south position of a point on the Earth's surface.

What is latitude?

500

Volcanic mountains, like the Hawaiian Islands, formed on top of this, a place where magma erupts through the crust and reaches the surface.

What is a hot spot?

500

Pahoehoe is fast moving, hot lava that has this type of viscosity.

What is low viscosity?

500

Earthquakes around a volcano can be triggered by movement of magma into the magma chamber and then through this.

What is the pipe?

500

These form when water heated by magma rises to the surface. Sometimes, a geyser will follow it.

What are hot springs?

500

This is what PEMDAS stands for.

What is parenthesis, exponents, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction?