The Birth of Rocks Vocabulary

What is a volcano?

• A type of rock

• A high area of land with an opening where lava flows or explodes out from

• A scientist who studies rocks

• A group of active volcanoes

What is an active volcano?

• A volcano that is not likely to erupt

• A volcano that is erupting or that is likely to erupt in the near future

• A type of rock

• A scientist who studies volcanoes

What is basalt?

• A type of rock formed when thin, fast-moving lava cools and is usually very dark in color

• A high area of land with an opening

• A liquid rock that flows from a volcano

• A group of active volcanoes

What does it mean to erupt?

• To study volcanoes

• When lava quickly comes out of a volcano

• To form a circle shape

• To cool and become rock

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What is an extinct volcano?

• A volcano that is erupting

• A volcano that is not likely to erupt in the future

• A type of rock

• A scientist who studies volcanoes

What is lava?

• A type of rock

• Liquid rock that flows or explodes from a volcano

• A scientist who studies volcanoes

• A group of active volcanoes

What is the Ring of Fire?

• A type of rock

• A group of active volcanoes that form a circle shape around the Pacific Ocean

• A scientist who studies volcanoes

• A volcano with slow flowing thick lava

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Who is a volcanologist?

• A type of rock

• A scientist who studies volcanoes

• A group of active volcanoes

• A volcano with slow flowing thick lava

What is a cone volcano?

• A type of rock

• A volcano with slow flowing thick lava that usually erupts with an explosion

• A scientist who studies volcanoes

• A group of active volcanoes

What is a shield volcano?

• A volcano with fast flowing thin lava that does not usually erupt with an explosion

• A volcano with thick lava that erupts explosively

• A mountain formed by tectonic plates

• A type of underwater volcano