Volcanic Eruptions
Types of Lava
Types of Explosions
Types of volcanoes
Facts of Volcanoes
100
This national park sits on top of the biggest volcano in North America. It is also home to "Old Faithful".
What is Yellowstone National Park?
100
This type of lava is formed in lumps under the water.
What is pillow lava?
100
This Italian volcano has a nonexplosive eruptions record.
What is Vesuvius?
100
This type of volcano is shaped like it is named, and it eruptes for only a short time.
What is a Cinder Cone Volcano?
100
The place where the explosions and lava come out.
What is the Crater?
200
This volcano is one of the most dangerous volcanoes of all time.
What is Vesuvius?
200
This lava is named after the sound the people made after walking over the hardened rock.
What is Aa?
200
This Philippianese volcano had an explosive eruption in 1951.
What is Hibok-Hibok?
200
This volcano is formed by lava from repeated unexplosive eruptions, in layers.
What is a Shield Volcano?
200
This liquid rock is immediatly turned to lava once it hits air.
What is Magma?
300
This volcano erupted and destroyed an entire city.
What is Mt. Pelee?
300
This type of lava is thick and moves slowly like melted wax.
What is Pahoehoe?
300
This type of eruption dosen't send lava into the air. Instead it sends ash flying into the air so it looks like a huge coud that covers the sky.
What is explosive lava?
300
This volcano type is named like it is inside, because of two or more lava flows.
What is a Composite volcano?
300
The chamber underneath a volcano that holds the magma.
What is the magma chamber?
400
This volcano has the second largest eruption ever.
What is Mt. Pinatubo?
400
This lava is stiff and dosen't move far from the volcano it came from.
What is Blocky lava?
400
This type of eruption sends out calm streams of lava.
What is a nonexplosive eruption?
400
This composite volcano is very destructive and in the western United States.
What is Mount. St. Helens?
400
This property of a volcano forms when lava magma expands rapidly into tiny glass-like slivers.
What is volcano ash?
500
This volcano has erupted in years 1669,2000, and 2001.
What is Mt. Etna?
500
The four types of lava.
What is pillow lava, blocky lava, aa lava, and pahoehoe lava?
500
This type of of volcanic flow is composed of ash coming from the volcano at more than 200 km/h.
What is a pyroclastic flow?
500
This Hawaiian volcano is a very tall shield volcano, taller than Mt. Everest, although most of it is underwater.
What is Mauna Kea?
500
This type of rock is made up of magma that hardened before it hit the ground.
What is lapilli?