Historic Eruptions
Infamous Volcanoes
Science of Volcanoes
Types of Volcanoes
Volcano Damage
100
The city where there are casts of people and dogs after a violent eruption.
What is Pompeii?
100
This volcano is the world's largest active volcano.
What is Mauna Loa?
100
Lava that cooled over volcanic vents that formed a domelike shape.
What are lava domes?
100
Volcanoes that look like cones without a point are called this.
What is cylander cone volcano?
100
This substance rises in the sky and falls from a volcanic eruption.
What is ash?
200
This volcano blasted tons of ash into the sky of the state of Washington.
What is Mt. Saint Helens
200
This volcano makes up the big island of Hawaii.
What is Kilauea?
200
When found above ground I have one name, but when found below ground I have another name even though chemically there is no difference between the two.
What is the difference between magma and lava?
200
A volcano made up of lava and ash.
What is a composite volcano?
200
This flows down the side of a volcano and can cause farms and villages to burn.
What is lava?
300
This volcano had an eruption that lasted for 10 days and buried or destroyed more than 370 buildings.
What is Mount Eldfell?
300
This volcano killed 36,000 people in one volcanic eruption and also caused one the islands of Indonesia to sink into the Pacific Ocean.
What is Krakatau?
300
Ash mixed with rain
What are lahars?
300
This volcano has a curved shape like a soldier's shield.
What is shield volcano?
300
Giant rocks that erupt from the volcano.
What are bombs?
400
This volcano had a blast that killed 57 people.
What is Mount St. Helens?
400
This volcano had an ash tornado and lightening happen in Chile, South America.
What is Puyehue?
400
The San Andreas fault, the Indonesian Island, Japan and the Alaskan rings make up this.
What is the Ring of Fire?
400
Thick lava cooled over a volcano's vent.
What is a lava dome?
400
The force that can knock down a whole forest.
What is a volcanic blast?
500
This volcano was heard in Juneau, Alaska in one of the largest eruptions of the 20th century?
What is Novarupta?
500
This volcano shattered windows 4 miles away and stopped nearby railroad and airports in Japan in 2011. It was also the location of the secret rocket base for the James Bond film "You Only Live Twice."
What is Shinmoetake?
500
Ash and lava rubbing together to form electricity.
What are volcanic lightening strikes?
500
This type of volcano made up the Hawaiian Islands.
What is a shield volcano?
500
This happens when a volcanic explosion occurs under the ocean floor.
What is a tsunami?