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TYPES OF VOLCANOES
CHARACTERISTCS
ALSO KNOWN AS (aka)
POTPOURI
SUPER-VOLCANOES
100
Cinder Cone
What is the name of a volcano made up of pyroclastic material?
100
Felsic
What is the term that describes magma or rock that is rich in light-colored silicate materials.
100
Lava
What is called molted rock at the surface of the Earth?
100
Pahoehoe
What is the hawaiian term for smooth, ropey lava?
100
Deep sided profiles.
What is the general profile of mega-volcanoes?
200
Shield Volcanoes
What is called a volcanic cone that is braod at the base and has gentle sloping sides?
200
Mafic
What describes magma or rock that is rich in magnesium and and iron and is commonly dark in color?
200
Fire Mountains
What are volcanoes often called?
200
aa
What is the Hawaiian term for cooled lava with jagged edges?
200
Large Volumes of Volcanic ash and surfur dioxde
What are the two main products of mega volcanoes?
300
Shield, cinder and Composite cones
What are the three main types of volcanoes?
300
Caldera
What is a large, basin-shaped depression in the center of a collapsed volcano?
300
Super-volcanoes
What is a mega-volcano?
300
Caldera
What is a large, circular depression that forms when the magma chamber below a volcano partially empties and causes the ground above to sink?
400
Composite Volcano
What is a volcano that is made from alternating layers of hardened laval flows and pyrclastic material?
400
Lapilli
What is the latin word that means "little stones?"
400
Volcanologist
What is the name of a scientist that studies volcanoes?
400
Island Arc
What is a string of volcanic islands?
400
Erupted 75,000 years ago.
What is Lake Toba?
500
Mount Saint Helens
What is the name of the US volcano that erupted May 1980?
500
Composite Volcano
What is a stratovolcano?
500
Viscosity
What is the resistance to flow?
500
Yellowstone Park
What is the location of the supervolcano in the United States that erupted 640,000 years ago?