Volcano Vocab

Beneath the vent of a volcano where magma is stored.

Hot fluid or semi-fluid material below or within the earth’s crust from which lava and other igneous rock is formed when cooling---IN EARTH

Hot molton or semi-fluid rock erupted from a volcano or fissure, or solid rock resulting from cooling of this---LAND

 a volcano that is currently erupting

A volcano that is not currently erupting but could erupt in the future.

The expulsion of gasses, rock fragments, and /or molten lava from within the Earth through a vent onto the Earth’s surface or into the atmosphere

The mostly solid bulk of Earth’s interior. Layer under the crust of the Earth’s surface.

A volcano no longer near an active geologic hot spot. The caldera has not produced an eruption in tens of thousands of years.

The outermost layer of our planet; it’s a thin shell that surrounds the entire Earth. Less than 1 % of Earth’s radius.

The very hot , very dense, center of our planet.