Volcanoes

What is the process called when molten lava cools and turns into solid rock?

• Crystallization

• Evaporation

• Condensation

• Fusion

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Applying

Molten lava becomes solid rock through the process of ___

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Applying

The process of ___ involves the transformation of liquid lava into solid rock.

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Applying

What happens to molten lava during a volcanic eruption?

• It cools and solidifies

• It evaporates

• It turns into gas

• It disappears

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Applying

Can you describe what each part of the simulation represents? Fill in the boxes below with a label for what each part represents in the real world.

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Lava Flow

Lava and Gasses

Lava Rock

Crater in Earth

Earth's Crust

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NGSS.MS-PS1-2

Match the following.

• magma

• Erupted in 1980

• Mount St. Helens

• Largest type of volcano

• Shield Volcano

• Lava underground

Match the following

Types of Volcanos

• long steep sided rips or cracks in crust

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• tall, steep sided and explosive

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• largest wide with gentle slopes

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• Large depression formed when a volcano's summit collapses

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

What causes the valcano to grow in size? 

• Layers of lava cooling into new rock

• Lava sinking back into the earth.

• People place rocks on top the the ground.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Stratovolcanoes can be described as...

• Very large with gentle slopes and eruptions of low viscosity magma
• Large with steep slopes and violent eruptions of very viscous magma
• Small and clustered in groups with steep slopes and firey eruptions that occur only once

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Match the following

• Shield

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• Strato

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• Fissure

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• Caldera

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2