Volcanoes

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

• Volcanoes

• Volcanism

• Flood Basalt

• Convergent Boundaries

Match the following

• Igneous Rock

• Melted Rock that Solidifies

• Magma

• Melted Rock Above Ground

• Lava

• Melted Rock Below Ground

What is the Ring of Fire?

• Volcanoes around the edge of the Pacific Ocean

• Volcanoes around the edge of the Atlantic Ocean

• Volcanoes around the edge of the Indian Ocean

• A big divergent boundary in the ocean

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

• Composite

• Cinder Cone

• Shield

• Flood Basalt

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

• Composite

• Cinder Cone

• Shield

• Flood Basalt

You see a large volcano in the distance with a large peak. It's probably a:

• Composite

• Cinder Cone

• Shield

• Flood Basalt

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

• Composite

• Cinder Cone

• Shield

• Flood Basalt

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

• Clastopyric Flow

• Pillow Lava

• Lava Flow

• Pyroclastic Flow

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

• Dormant

• Active

• Extinct

• Ash

Match the following

• Conduit

• A HUGE depression from when a volcano collapses

• Block

• Largest type of tephra

• Caldera

• Bowl shape at the top of a volcano

• Crater

• The hole where magma leaves a volcano

• Vent

• A tube in a volcano that magma moves through