Volcanic Structures

What type of volcano is this?

• Composite Volcano
• Cinder Cone Volcano
• Shield Volcano

What type of volcano is this?

• Composite Volcano
• Cinder Cone Volcano
• Shield Volcano

What type of volcano is this?

• Composite Volcano
• Cinder Cone Volcano
• Shield Volcano

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What do you call a large crater formed by the collapse of a volcano?

• Caldera
• Lava Plateau
• Composite Volcano
• Shield Volcano

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What type of volcano is small with steep sides and is made of lava fragments that have been ejected?

• Caldera
• Cinder Cone
• Composite Volcano
• Shield Volcano

Tall, cone-shaped mountains in which layers of lava alternate with layers of ash

• Cinder Cone volcano

• Shield volcano

• Composite volcano

• Caldera

This wide, gently sloping mountain forms as lava pours out of the vent and hardens on top of previous layers.

• Caldera

• Cinder cone volcano

• Composite volcano

• Shield volcano

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Repeated floods of molten material can form high, level plateaus called...

• prairie plateaus

• magma plateaus

• lava plateaus

• dome plateaus

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

This forms when magma hardens in a volcano's pipe and the surrounding rock later wears away.

• a dike

• a sill

• a lava plateau

• volcanic neck

Magma that forces itself across rock layers and hardens is called a _________.

• volcanic neck

• sill

• dike

• batholith

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1