Vocabulary
How Volcanoes Form
How Volcanoes Destroy
Types of Volcanoes
Miscellaneous
100
This is a mountain that forms when red-hot melted rock flows through a crack in the earth's surface.
What is a volcano?
100
Fountains of hot rock punch through the ____________ to form a volcano.
What is the crust?
100
Other than lava what erupts from a volcano that can destroy?
What is gases?
100
Large mountains that have gentle slopes and form from runny lava?
What is a shied volcano?
100
A large basin formed at the top of the volcano?
What is a crater?
200
Melted rock inside earth....
What is magma?
200
Some volcanoes form when two plates move ____________ from each other.
What is moving away?
200
Gases and hot ___________ can actually blow down a forest because they are so hot?
What is winds?
200
These are small volcanoes made from hardened chunks of lava called cinders?
What is a cinder cone volcano?
200
When water fills a crater this is created?
What is a lake?
300
Melted rock that reaches the earth's surface is called.....
What is lava?
300
When magma gets to the surface, it cools and makes this new type of floor.....
What is ocean floor?
300
Ash and gases can reach how many degrees?
What is 800 degrees Celsius?
300
These are medium sized volcanoes made up of layers of lava that alternate with layers of cinders?
What is a composite volcano?
300
Despite destroying land, years later areas where volcanoes have exploded begin to grow new......
What is crops or vegetation?
400
Magma raises to the earth surface through a rocky tube called a ........
What is a vent?
400
Some volcanoes form when what two crusts collide?
What is ocean crust and continental crust?
400
A volcano that has not erupted for a very long time is called a _____________ volcano?
What is a dormant volcano?
400
Some volcanoes shoot runny lava high into the air, other volcanoes ______________ lava like soft-serve ice cream.
What is ooze?
400
After the ash from the volcanoes and volcanic rock is changed from water flowing over it this is deposited into the soil to help the vegetation grow?
What is minerals?
500
Magma can be found here in an underground pool?
What is a magma chamber?
500
Some volcanoes form when a plate moves over a hot spot in the ...........
What is the mantle?
500
What is the name of the city that was destroyed by a volcano and the gases and ash caused all of the people that lived there to die and be covered in ash?
What is Pompeii?
500
What landform is created by volcanoes?
What is an island?
500
A deadly volcano erupted here in the United States back in 1980. What is the name of the volcano and where is it located?
What is Mount Saint Helens in Washington