Vocabulary
What is Pahoe
What are the three types of volcanoes?
Shield volcanoes, Cinder cones, and Composite volcanoes
What are the three most common volcanic landforms?
Calderas, volcanic necks, and volcanic plateaus.
What is the crater of a volcano?
the circular surface depression caused by volcanic activity, usually on the summit or flank of a volcano
What is Aa?
What are shield cones?
a conical or domical shield volcano.
What is a caldera?
a large volcanic crater, especially one formed by a major eruption leading to the collapse of the mouth of the volcano.
What is the conduit of a volcano?
subterranean geological structures formed by the violent, supersonic eruption of deep-origin volcanoes.
What is lapilli
What are cinder cones
What is a Volcanic neck?
a column of solidified lava or igneous rock formed in a volcanic vent, especially when exposed by erosion.
What is a magma chamber?
What is a Pyroclastic Bomb?
a lump of lava thrown out by a volcano.
What are composite volcanoes?
They are symmetrical Volcanoes that are extremely dangerous.
What is a Lava Plateau?
formed by highly fluid basaltic lava during numerous successive eruptions through numerous vents without violent explosions
What is the ash cloud?
small shattered fragments of rock and volcanic glass particles that come out of a volcano.
What is Pyroclastic Material?
a cloud of ash, lava fragments carried through the air, and vapor.
What is a volcano?
an opening in the earth's crust through which lava, volcanic ash, and gases escape.
What kind of evidence do these landforms provide?
Signs of volcanic activity.
What is the flank?
The slopes of a volcano.