VOLCANOES

VOLCANIC FEATURES

100

Ship Rock, New Mexico

What is a volcanic neck?

200

Paricutin, Mexico

What is a cinder cone volcano?

300

Kilauea, Hawaii

What is a shield volcano?

400

Soufriere Hills, Monserrat

What is a composite volcano?

500

Yosemite National Park granite domes, California

What is a batholith?

VOCABULARY

100

ash and cinders blown violently out of volcanoes

What is tephra?

200

opening at the top of a volcano's vent

What is a crater?

300

magma squeezed in horzonital rock layers

What is a sill?

400

hot area in Earth's mantle that melts rock into magma

What is a hot spot?

500

largest intrusive igneous rock body

What is a batholith?

BITS & PIECES

100

Pacific plate carried the island away from the hot spot

Why is the island of Kauai now a dormant volcano?

200

Identify two places on Earth that have active volcanoes.

What are Hawaii, Iceland and Mexic0?

300

Kilauea, Hawaii is this type of volcano

What is a shield volcano?

400

Crater Lake, Oregon

What is a caldera?

500

Mount Rainier in Washington

What is a composite volcano?

ERUPTIONS

100

controls eruptions

What is the amount of water vapor and silica?

200

type of magma low in silica

What is basaltic magma?

300

silica-rich magma that produces explosive eruptions

What is granitic magma?

400

Krakatau was primarily this type of magma

What is andesitic magma?

500

lava that comes out of cracks in the ocean floor

What is pillow lava?

WHAT ABOUT THOSE PLATES

100

process that formed Soufriere Hills Volcano

What is plates moving together or a convergent boundary?

200

oceanic plate converging with continental plate

What is subduction?

300

type of boundary associated with composite volcanoes

What is convergent or plates moving together?

400

process that created the volcano Hekla in Iceland

What is plates moving apart or divergent boundaries?

500

process that created the island of Surtsey

What is plates moving apart or divergent boundaries?