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Magma
Parts
Stages
Types
Misc
100
Magma chamber
What is the place where magma collects?
100
Dormant
What is a volcano that is expected to awaken and erupt in the future?
100
Sand
What is silica?
200
Crater
What is the bowl shaped area at the top of a volcano?
200
Extinct
What is a dead volcano that is unlikely to erupt again?
200
Shield volcano
What is a wide gently sloping volcano?
200
Pahoehoe
What is fast moving lava with low viscosity?
300
Pipe
What is the long tune that connects magma chamber to the surface?
300
Geyser
What is a fountain of water and steam that erupts from the ground?
300
Cinder Cone
What is a steep cone shaped volcano?
300
aa
What is a slow moving cooler in temperature lava?
400
Quiet eruption
What is a volcanic eruption that is low in silica?
400
Caldera
What is a huge hole left by the collapse of a volcanic mountain?
400
Viscosity
What is the resistance of a liquid to flowing?
400
Composite volcano
What is tall cone shaped volcanoes made of alternating layers of lava and ash?
400
Pyroclastic flow
What is an explosive eruption that hurls out a mixture of hot gases, ash, cinders and bombs?
500
Explosive eruption
What is a volcanic eruption that is high in silica?
500
Batholith
What is a mass of rock formed when a large body of magma cools inside the crust?
500
Hot spot
What is a volcano erupting through the crust not along a plate boundary?
500
Sill
What is magma squeezed between horizontal layers of rock?
500
Volcanic neck
What is magma hardened in volcanic neck?