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Types of Volcanoes
Key Terms
Volcano Parts
Volcanic Eruptions
Misc.
100
The kind of volcano that has a gentle sloping mountain caused by gradually flowing lava.
What is a shield volcano?
100
A molten mixture of rock-forming substances, gases, and water from the mantle.
What is magma?
100
The pocket of a volcano where magma collects.
What is the magma chamber?
100
A volcano erupts _____ if its magma is low in silica.
What is Quietly?
100
This country starts with a C and ends with a D, and is located in Central Africa.
Where is Chad?
200
The type of volcano that is formed by materials building up around the vent in a steep cone shaped hill or small mountain.
What is a Cinder Cone Volcano?
200
A weak spot in the crust where molten material, or magma, comes to the surface.
What is a volcano?
200
A long tube in the ground that connects the magma chamber to Earth's surface.
What is the pipe?
200
A volcano erupts _______ is high in silica.
What is Explosively?
200
This is the name for Japanese cartoons.
What is anime?
300
When lava flows alternate with explosive eruptions of ash, cinder, and bombs it creates this type of volcano.
What is a Composite Volcano?
300
An area where molten material from deep within the mantle rises then melts, forming magma.
What is a hot spot?
300
Where molten rock and gas leave the Earth.
What is the vent?
300
This occurs when an explosive eruption hurls out a mixture of hot gases, ash, cinder, and bombs.
What is pyroclastic flow?
300
This is the worlds longest river.
What is the Nile River?
400
This is made up of many layers of thin, runny lava that erupt from cracks in the ground.
What is a lava plateau?
400
A string of islands.
What is an island arc?
400
The area covered by lava as it pours out of a vent.
What is lava flow?
400
Scientist expect a _____ to erupt in the future.
What is dormant?
400
The island off of Africa that was originally named St. Lawrence.
What is Madagascar?
500
This state is made from a shield volcano.
What kind of volcano formed Hawaii?
500
A mass of rock formed when a large body of magma cools inside the crust.
What is a batholith?
500
A bowl-shaped area that may form at the top of a volcano around the central vent.
What is the crater?
500
This type of volcano unlikely to ever erupt again.
What is extinct?
500
Where is the only place in the world where slavery does not exist?
What is Antarctica?