Types of Lava
This type of lava is the most viscous type.
What is rhyolitic lava?
This is the type of volcano we see in Hawaii.
What is a shield volcano?
All the processes associated with the discharge of magma, hot fluids, and gases.
What is volcanism?
This is the opening in the crust from which lava erupts and flows out of.
What is the vent?
These are irregularly shaped intrusive features.
What are batholiths/stocks?
This type of lava is the least viscous.
What is basaltic lava?
What are composite volcanoes?
This is the major belt in which we find volcanoes.
What is the Pacific Ring of Fire?
This is the bowl-shaped depression, usually found at the top of a volcano.
What is a crater?
These intrusive features form parallel to the surrounding rock.
What are sills?
This type of lava is in the middle when it comes to viscosity.
What is andesitic lava?
This type of volcano can be found near composite volcanoes and they look like ant hills.
What are cinder cones?
This is the minor belt where we find volcanoes.
What is the Mediterranean Belt?
This is the tubelike structure that allows lava to reach the surface.
What is a conduit?
These intrusive features cut through the surrounding rock.
What are dikes?
What is silica?
This type of volcano can be forms from basaltic lava.
What is a shield volcano?
These form when lava flows out of long cracks in the Earth's crust.
What are flood basalts?
This is the holding place of the magma below the volcano.
What is the magma chamber?
These are lens shaped intrusive features.
What are laccoliths?
Higher _________ makes the lava more viscous.
What is pressure?
This type of volcano forms from rhyolitic lava.
What is a supervolcano?
The name of the biggest flood basalt in the world.
What are the Deccan Traps?
Crater lake is an example of this volcanic feature.
What is a caldera?
This is the name given to all the intrusive features.
What are plutons?