Volcano
Where do volcanoes from
What are some kinds of volcanoes
Specific volcano stuff
All the categorys
Hodgepodge
(Potpourri)
(Potpourri)
100
A mountain or hill, typically conical, having a crater or vent through which lava, rock fragments, hot vapor, and gas are being or have been erupted from the earth's crust.
What is a volcano?
100
From what type boundary do the most volcanoes?
What is convergent boundaries?
100
How many types of volcanoes are there?
What are three.
100
What is the most active volcanic region?
What is the Ring of Fire?
100
What is magma called when it is on the earth's crust?
What is lava?
100
What is the Hawaiian term for lava flows that have a rough, jagged surface made of broken lava blocks called clinkers? It is a quite short name, but you must pronounce it correctly.
What is aa? (ah-ah)
200
What three things do volcanoes expel?
What are gasses, ash, and lava (rocks are solid magma/lava)
200
From where does the lava come when volcanoes erupt? What is the name of the place where it resides?
What is the magma chamber?
200
Which volcano is built by alternating layers of lava and ash and can create explosive eruptions?
What is a composite volcano or stratovolcano?
200
What type of volcano is Mt. Fuji?
What is a composite volcano?
200
Large, rounded pieces of lava ejected during an eruption.
What is volcanic bombs.
200
When a volcano forms in the middle of a tectonic plate, that location is referred to as what?
What is a hot spot?
300
What is molten rock that is under the earth's surface?
and
What is molten rock that reaches the earth's surface?
What is magma
What is lava?
300
What is the name of the path (pipe) from the magma chamber up to the surface?
What is conduit? Main vent will be accepted, but learn this name also.
300
What type of volcano has sides that are wide and flat?
What is a shield volcano?
300
What type of volcano is Paricutin in Mexico? It grew up overnight, taking over a farmer's corn field.
What is cinder cone volcano?
300
What is created when lava cools and hardens beneath the earth's surface?
What is an intrusive igneous rock?
300
What is a large, steep-walled very deep depression formed by the collapse of a volcano's summit after a major eruption?
What is a caldera?
400
What is the name of the path in the earth's crust through which magma from the chamber comes?
What is the main vent? (conduit also)
400
What is the name of a vent which leaves the main path and follows another path to the surface on the side of the volcano?
What is side or secondary vent? (+50 if both names)
400
What kind of volcano is small with steep angled sides, is built over a small period of time (days to several months at most), and spits lava which falls on the sides of the volcano called? (It typically only erupts once.)
What is a cinder cone volcano?
400
What type of volcano is Mauna Loa on the Big Island of Hawaii?
What is a shield volcano?
400
What is a horizontal igneous intrusion called? (A pipe which doesn't reach the surface.)
What is a sill?
400
What is it called when fragments of volcanic rock ejected during an eruption along with ash and large blocks flow rapidly down steep slopes?
What is pyroclastic flows?
500
What is a volcano called that hasn't erupted in 10,000 yearsand scientists think it will never erupt again?
and
What is it called if they think it could erupt again? (bonus)
What is extinct?
and
What is inactive?
500
What the name of the top of the volcano cone?
and
Rock fragments and particles ejected by a volcanic eruption.
What is crater?
and
What is tephra?
500
What kind of volcano is the most common volcano?
What is a cinder cone volcano?
500
What type of smaller volcanoes are often found around other large composite volcanoes or shield volcanoes?
What is a cinder cone volcano?
500
A deadly, high-speed current of volcanic ash, gas, and rock fragments that moves away from a volcano down its slope?
What is a pyroclastic flow?
500
Large rounded pieces of lava ejected during an eruption.
Volcanic bombs.
600
What do you call the crater of a volcano which has exploded and the material has sunk back down, leaving a larger irregular opening, such as with Mt. St. Helens?
What is a caldera?
600
What are the names of the two type of layers on a composite volcano?
What is ash layer and lava layer?
600
Name a volcano which had a famous eruption in 79AD, wiping out Pompeii.
What is Mt. Vesuvius?
600
What famous volcano erupted a long time ago in he western US? It was much larger than Mt. St. Helen.
what is the Yellowstone composite volcano?
600
What is the name of a type of lava flow that has a smooth, ropy, or billowy surface? It's a Hawaiian term for thick, folded lava that's highly fluid and spreads out in thin sheets. It is a Hawaiian term.
What is Pahoehoe?
600
Identify the two types of volcanoes shown below:
A) 
B) 
A) Shield
B) cinder cone