Under Pressure
Provides nutrients to the soil and cooled lava hardens into rocks that creates new landforms.
The shape of a stratovolcano.
What is gentle lower slope but steep upper slope?
The shape of a cinder cone volcano.
What is steep, cone-shaped hill with straight sides?
Shape of a shield volcano.
What is very gentle slope, convex upward, like a warrior's shield?
Hot gas formed in magma that mixes with ash and races out of volcano as fast as 100 miles per hour.
What is pyroclastic flow?
Hot liquid rock deep within the Earth.
What is magma?
Another name for a stratovolcano.
What is a composite volcano?
General size of a cinder cone volcano.
What is small?
General size of a shield volcano.
What is large?
Different types of lava flows are caused by this.
What is the stickiness of lava?
Hot liquid rock that has reached the surface of the Earth.
What is lava?
Material that erupts from a stratovolcano.
What are lava and pyroclastic materials?
Material type that erupts from a cinder cone volcano.
What is cinders (ash)?
Type of material that erupts from a shield volcano.
What is fluid lava flow?
Lava that flows slowly and hardens quickly.
What is Pahoehoe lava?
An opening in the Earth's crust where magma erupts to the surface.
What is a volcano?
Stratovolcano eruption type.
What is explosive?
What is explosive?
Shield volcano eruption type.
Lava that pours out quickly, forming a brittle crust that is torn into jagged pieces as the molten lava underneath continues to move.
What is aa lava?
Pacific Ring of Fire
What is the location where 75% of Earth's volcanoes are located?
The general size of a stratovolcano.
What is large?
Location of cinder cone volcano found in a farmer's field.
What is Mexico?
State where famous shield volcano is located.
What is Hawaii?
Lava that erupts underwater, forming rounded lumps.
What is pillow lava?