Landforms from Lava and Ash
What is a steep, cone-shaped hill or small mountain made of volcanic ash, cinders, or bombs piled up around a volcano's opening.
What is a cinder-cone volcano?
True/False: Magma cools beneath the surface.
True
Old Faithful in Yosemite National Park is an example of what type of Geothermal Activity?
What is a Geyser?
A fountain of water and steam that builds up pressure underground and erupts at regular intervals.
What is a geyser?
True/False: Mount Fuji has a perfect cone.
What is true?
What is the process for a Caldera to form?
A volcano has an explosive eruption and blows the top off the volcano. A giant crater-like bowl forms.
What is an example of dome mountains?
What are the Black Hills in South Dakota?
How do we get electricity from geothermal energy?
Steam form underground is piped into a turbine and causes a pinwheel to turn. The movement inside the pinwheel causes a generator to run that changes the energy of motion into energy of electricity.
The large hole at the top of a volcano formed when the roof collapses.
What is a caldera?
What two nutrients are found in volcanic soils?
What are Phosphorous and Potassium?
What is a landform that forms when a little bit of lava flows out from cracks in the earth again and again on top of earlier layers?
What is a lava plateau?
What is a deposit of hardened magma in a volcano's pipe.
What is a volcanic neck?
What is a hot spring?
What is a natural pool of hot water heated by nearby magma or hot rock?
A tall, cone-shaped mountain in which layers of lava alternate with layers of ash and other volcanic materials.
What are Composite Volcanoes?
Give an example of a Dome Mountain.
What are the Black Hills in South Dakota?
What is a Shield Volcanoes?
True or False: A sill forms horizontally in rock.
List the three types of Geothermal Activity.
Geysers, Hot Springs, and Geothermal Energy.
A mass of rock formed when a large body of magma cools within the crust.
What is a Batholith?
Why is volcanic ash so fertile?
When volcanic breaks down it releases substances that plants need.
What are composite volcanoes?
Name five features that form from magma hardening under the surface.
Volcanic necks, dikes, sills, batholiths, and dome mountains.
Name two examples of geothermal energy?
The people of Reykjavik, Iceland use the hot water to heat their homes.
It can also be used to make electricity.
What is a Dike?
Where is Carter Lake located?
What is Oregon?