Types of Volcanoes

What is the spread of lava as it pours out of a vent?

• magma chamber
• pipe
• lava flow
• crater

Name the volcano type pictured:

• cinder cone

• Composite/ stratovolcano

• shield volcano

• none of the above

This volcano is most likely which type of volcano?

• Felsic
• Composite
• Shield
• Cinder cone

Formed by viscous lava from a volcano erupting onto the surface and then piling up around the vent.

• Shield

• Composite

• Cinder cone

• Lava Dome

Once magma reaches the earth's surface it is called.....

• Silica
• Rock
• lava

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How are lava and magma most different?

• their location
• their heat
• their color
• what they eat for lunch

What type of volcano is this..

• Shield
• Cinder Cone
• Composite or Stratovolcano

Volcanoes can be found...

• on land
• under water
• on islands
• all of the above

Smaller volcanoes that typically throw ash into the air during eruption

• cinder cone
• shield
• composite
• fissure

An opening in the Earth's crust through which molten rock, gases, and ash erupts is called a(n) _____________. 

• explosion
• volcano
• vent
• geyser

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