Module 14 - Volcanoes

The name for all of the processes by which magma and gases are transferred from Earth's interior to on or near the surface:

• Volcanoes

• Flood Basalts

• Volcanism

• Convergent boundaries

When magma reaches the surface, it's called:

What is the ring of fire?

• Volcanoes around the edge of the Pacific Ocean

• Volcanoes around the edge of the Indian Ocean

• Volcanoes around the edge of the Atlantic Ocean

• The mid-ocean ridge in the Atlantic Ocean

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

This type of volcano can form in the middle of a tectonic plate, not near a plate boundary:

• Composite

• Shield

• Cinder Cone

• Flood Basalt

This type of volcano is the largest, with gentle sloping sides

• Composite

• Shield

• Cinder Cone

• Flood Basalt

You see a large volcano in the distance with steep sides and a large peak, it's probably a:

• Composite

• Shield

• Cinder Cone

• Flood Basalt

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

These types of volcanoes are usually found on the sides of larger volcanoes. Small but violent, this one is called:

• Composite

• Shield

• Cinder Cone

• Flood Basalt

A dangerous mixture of toxic gas and tephra is known as a:

• Clystopyric Flow

• Lava Flow

• Pillow Lava

• Pyroclastic Flow

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

When volcanoes are active, but not erupting, we call them:

• Dormant

• Extinct

• Active

• Ash

The largest type of tephra is called a:

• Rock

• Block

• Ash

• Pillow

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2