Volcano Vocabulary

A volcano that is no longer active

• ash

• dormant volcano

• extinct volcano

• active volcano

a volcano that has not erupted for many years but there is still a small chance that it could.

• extinct volcano

• active volcano

• dormant volcano

• magma

a light colored volcanic rock containing lots of bubbles from trapped gasses

• pumice

• magma

• ash

• geyser

springs that throw boiling water in the air- caused by volcanic heat warming trapped ground water

• pumice

• crater

• geysers

• lava

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

the liquid rock inside a volcano

• lava

• magma

• ash

• geyser

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

very small fragments of lava or rock that are blasted into the air by volcanic explosions

• ash

• pumice

• lava

• magma

a volcano that has erupted in the last 10,000 years and could erupt again soon

• geyser

• extinct volcano

• dormant volcano

• active volcano

the liquid rock that flows out of a volcano

• magma

• lava

• ash

• pumice