Extra Terrestrial
Ancient Times
Composition
Vocabulary
Miscellaneous
100
Similar to the ones on earth, these natural land forms are found on other planets.
What are volcanoes
100
Ancient cultures often explained active (and dormant) volcanoes using these [only need one]
What are myths, religion, and superstition
100
Magma that has been exposed to the air is called this.
What is Lava
100
A mixture of liquid, melted rock, and dissolved gases.
What is magma
100
There are approximately 500 of these (not including underwater)
What are volcanoes
200
Lunar volcanoes are found on these bodies in the solar system.
What are moons
200
Ancient cultures worshiped volcanoes believing they were controlled by one of these.
What is a fire god
200
Active, and dormant are examples of these
What are classifications
200
This is found in magma, it effects how easily the magma flows
What is silica
200
This is made when a lava vent erupts slowly.
What is a Lava Dome
300
This planet is almost completely covered with volcanic activity
What is Venus
300
This eruption was the largest the United States ever experienced.
What is The Eruption of Mount St. Hellens
300
This substance makes up an Igneous rock.
What is Cooled Lava
300
Streams of molten rock that come from vents and fissures in the Earth's crust.
What is Lava flows
300
Mauna Loa, the worlds largest active volcano, is found in this place.
What is Hawaii
400
Volcanoes on other planets, unlike earth, are not linked to these.
What are Plate Tectonics
400
The name "Volcano" came from this Roman city that was destroyed.
What is Pompeii
400
This element is found in both shield volcanoes and scoria cones.
What is Basalt
400
This is used to describe a fluid's resistance to flow or internal friction.
What is viscosity
400
Fertile soil is a benefit of this over time.
What is a Volcanic Eruption
500
On Mercury, many of the large basins contain smooth plains, are likely to be filled with these.
What are Lava Flows
500
Ancient Greeks believed volcanic eruptions were the exhalations of these beings.
What are the Titans (giants the god Zeus had buried beneath the mountains)
500
This is what connects the magma under the surface to the outside of the crust.
What is a Vent
500
A wet mixture of water, mud, and volcanic rock fragments, with the consistency of wet concrete the flows down the slopes of a volcano and its river valley.
What is a Lahar
500
These rocks result in volcanic eruptions, and can actually float.
What are Pumice stones