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Vocabulary
Types of Volcanoes
Earth's structure
Continental Drift
Miscellaneous
100
A scientist who studies volcanoes
What is a volcanologist
100
The most common volcano
What is cinder cone
100
The outside of the Earth is called
What is the crust
100
The big supercontinent is called
What is Pangea
100
The center of the Earth is called...
What is the inner core
200
Magma that reaches Earth's surface
What is lava
200
Less dangerous than the other types
What is shield volcano
200
Below the crust there is the (upper and lower...)
What is mantle
200
What is the 'proof' of continental drift? (Something that can be found on two different continents that are far apart)
What is a fossil
200
What volcano erupted on December 3rd, 2015?
What is Mount Etna
300
Divergent, Convergent, and Transform are three kinds of what?
What are plate boundaries
300
Mount Fuji and Mount Vesuvius are this kind of volcano
What is composite volcano
300
The plates float on what section of the Earth?
What is the mantle
300
The motion of Earth's plates is called
What is plate tectonics
300
Nearly 90% of the active volcanoes in the world are in the...
What is Ring of Fire
400
A volcano that has not erupted for a long time but may erupt again one day
What is a dormant volcano
400
Also known as stratovolcanoes
What is composite volcanoes
400
Molten rock beneath the Earth's surface is called
What is magma
400
Who came up with the theory of continental drift?
Who is Alfred Wegener
400
The Kilauea volcano is in what state? (USA)
What is Hawaii
500
A toxic gas that is released from volcanoes
What is sulfur dioxide
500
The three different types of volcanoes are
What is cinder cones, shield volcanoes, composite volcanoes
500
What part of the Earth do you see everyday?
What is the crust
500
This helps cause continental drift- it is when two continental plates under the sea move apart.
What is seafloor spreading
500
The outer core is made up of this
What is liquid metal