SCIENCE 9: Volcanoes

Question 1

Molten rock beneath Earth’s surface.

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Magma

Question 2

Molten rock that breaks through Earth’s surface and solidifies as it cools.

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Lava

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A flat piece of rock formed when magma hardens in a crack of a volcano.

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Sill

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An opening in Earth’s surface through which volcanic materials escape.

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Vent

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An opening or vent in a planet’s crust from which molten rock, ash, and gases escape from below.

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Volcano

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The side of a volcano.

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Flank

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A depression larger than the original crater that forms when the summit is blown off or when the volcano collapses into the empty magma chamber.

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Caldera

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Mouth of a volcano that surrounds a volcanic vent.

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Crater

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An underground passage magma travels through.

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Conduit

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Highest point, apex.

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Summit

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Entrance of a volcano. The part of the conduit that eject lava and volcanic ash.

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Throat

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Fragments of lava or rock smaller than 2mm size that are blasted into the air by volcanic explosions.

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Ash

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A cloud of ash formed by volcanic explosions.

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Ash Cloud

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A classification of volcanoes that have not erupted for the last 10,000 years.

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Inactive Volcanoes

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Have not erupted for a very long time, but may erupt at a future time.

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Dormant Volcanoes

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Has a record of eruption within the last 600 years (historical record) or 10,000 years ago based on the analyses of their materials.

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Active Volcanoes

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A type of volcano that is almost a flat and broad like a warrior’s shield.

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Shield Volcanoes

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Usually small and made up of pyroclasts or fragment of volcanic rocks that form steep slopes around their wide crater.

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Pyroclastic Volcanoes

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A tall mountain with a crater on top which pyroclastic materials, gases and lava escape. Also known for its violent eruptions.

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Stratovolcanoes

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Are found along the boundaries of tectonic plates, particularly divergent and convergent boundaries.

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Continental Volcanoes

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Volcanoes that are usually found on the ocean floor.

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Submarine Volcanoes

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Volcanoes found in high latitude countries like Iceland.

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Subglacial Volcanoes

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A process which the two plates meet, one of them (usually the oceaning plate) goes under the continental plate.

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Subduction

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What will be formed when two tectonic plates (contintental - continental) come together?

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Volcano

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It is like a jigsaw puzzle which a large chunk of plates on the Earth’s lithosphere (made up of crust and upper mantle).

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Tectonic Plates

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Is the property of a material’s resistance to flow. Also described as the liquid’s thickness or stickiness. The more viscous and thicker the material is, the greater is its resistance to flow.

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Viscosity

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What are the primary factors affecting the volcanic eruptive style.

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• Magma Temperature
• Chemical Composition
• Amount of Dissolved Gases

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The higher the temperature of magma is, the lower is its viscosity.

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Magma Temperature

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Magma’s high silica content are more viscous than those with low silica content.

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Chemical Composition

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Gas (mainly water vapor) dissolved in magma tends to increase its ability to flow.

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Amount of Dissolved Gases

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Is a stream-driven eruption, as hot rocks come in contact with water. It is short-lived characterized by ash columns but may be an onset for a larger eruption.

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Hydrothermal

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Is a violent eruption due to contact between water and magma. As a result, a large column of very fine ash, high speed and side-way emission of pyroclastic called based surges are observed.

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Phreatomagmatic

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A periodic weak to violent eruption characterized by fountains of lava.

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Strombolian

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Characterized by tall eruption columns that reach up to 20 km high with pyroclastic flow and ash fall tephra.

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Vulcanian

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Excessively explosive type of eruption of gas and pyroclastics.

Also considered as the largest and most violent of all types of volcanic eruption.

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Plinian

Famous Example: Mt. Pinatubo last eruption (June 15, 1991)

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Mt. Mayon is an example of?

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An active stratovolcano.

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A mixture of volcanic ashes and dust that is mixed with water.

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Lahar

Question 38

Volcanic eruptions produce gases which are ____ and irritating on the skin.

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Dangerous

Question 39

The heat from deep inside the Earth is used to produce steam to generate electricity.

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Geothermal Power Plants

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The heat flowing from the inside of the Earth is tapped as a source of energy.

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Geothermal Energy

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The heat coming from close to the Earth’s surface to heat water or provide heat for buildings.

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Geothermal Heat Pumps

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Geothermal Power Plant works:

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