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Types of Volcanoes
Real Life Examples
Parts of the Volcano
Volcanic Technologies
Vocab
100
A place where lots of volcanoes occur.
What is the ring of fire?
100
The body of molten rock that feeds a volcano. Located in the mantle.
What is the magma chamber.
100
A system to drill underground to find magma chambers?
What is drilling?
100
Lava that flows slowly, like wax dripping from a candle.
What is Pahoehoe?
200
Made of pyroclastic material and have moderate explosive eruptions
What is a cinder cone volcano?
200
A volcano that ended a whole civilization many years ago.
What is Mount Vesuvius?
200
A vent.
What is an opening at the surface of the earth through which volcanic material passes?
200
They travel through the ground to create a 3D image for scientists.
What do cosmic rays do?
200
A wide flat land form that results from repeated no-explosive eruptions.
What is a lava plateau?
300
The most common type of volcano that forms from explosive eruptions.
What is a composite volcano?
300
The famous American Caldera. (where)
What is in Yellowstone National Park?
300
A funnel-shaped pit near the top of the central vent of a volcano.
What is a crater?
300
What are sensors that detect changes in water pressure and temperature?
What are water sensors
300
A volcanically active area of Earth's surface far from a tectonic plate boundary.
What is a hot spot?
400
The rarer type of volcanoes, explosive or non-explosive.
What is an explosive volcano?
400
Lava is made of this.
What is crystals, volcanic gas, and bubbles?
400
Detected movement in the ground caused by the build up pressure.
What is a seismograph?
400
Lava shaped like pillows that form underwater.
What is Pillow Lava?
500
Where most shield volcanoes are located.
Where is Hawaii?
500
An active volcano in SW Washington.
What is Mount St. Helens?
500
What leads from the magma chamber to the opening in the top of the volcano.
What is the throat?
500
Satellite images that detect movement on the ground.
What is GPS?
500
A dark cloud in the sky that forms when an explosive volcano erupts.
What is an ash cloud?