This word is used to describe a volcano that is unlikely to erupt again.
What is extinct?
100
This volcano is located in Indonesia and its eruption in 1883 was one of the most deadly in history. Its 1883 eruption caused at least 36000 deaths.
What is Krakatau or Krakatoa
100
This is a major volcanic belt formed by volcanoes that rim the pacific ocean.
What is the Ring of Fire?
100
This is a Hawaiian fire goddess of volcanoes.
Who is Pele?
100
This type of volcano created the Hawaiian Islands and the Medicine Lake volcano in northern California.
What is a cinder cone volcano?
200
This type of volcano is formed when quiet eruptions alternate with explosive ones.
What is composite volcano
200
This volcano is located in Japan and is a popular tourist site. It is 3776 meters tall with more than 200,000 people climbing up the volcano each year.
What is Mount Fugi
200
These sometimes form down the center of a mid-ocean ridge.
What is a rift valley?
200
This is where most magma is formed.
What is the asthenosphere?
200
This is a huge hole left by the collapse of a volcano.
What is a caldera?
300
These form when magma hardens in a volcano's pipe.
What is a volcanic neck?
300
This volcano is one of the volcanoes located in Hawaii erupted for 30 years starting in 1983. Continuing until 2013. The name of this volcano means spewing or much spreading in Hawaiian.
What is Kilauea?
300
This is what happens when to plates collide one plate sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench.
What is subduction?
300
These eruptions occur when there is a high amount of silica in magma.
What is an explosive eruption?
300
This is the reason why people sometimes enjoy living near an active volcano.
What is fertile soil?
400
These form when magma squeezes between horizontal layers of rock.
What is a dike?
400
This volcano located in Washington, erupted in 1980
and also appears in Rick Riordan's battle of the Labyrinth and causes Percy to land on Calypso's island.
What is Mount St. Helens?
400
This is an area deep within a mantle where material rises then melts.
What is a hotspot?
400
This is a type of explosion eruption that hurls out hot gases, ashes, cinders, and bombs.
What is pyroclastic flow?
400
This is what forms when magma hardens to form igneous rock.
What is an intrusion?
500
These are broad bowl-shaped valleys that form when crust is bent downwards.
What is a basin?
500
This volcano caused many deaths in Pompeii during its eruption in 79 A.D and appears in Rick Riordan's Blood of Olympus where Reyna, Nico, and Coach Hedge almost fall into its vent.
What is Mount Vesuvius?
500
Mount Etna formed near the boundary of these two plates.
What is the Eurasian and African plates?
500
This is a fountain of water or steam that erupts from the ground.
What is a geyser?
500
These are large rock masses that form when a large body of magma cools inside the crust.