Volcanoes

Question 1

Magma

Answer 1

Hot liquid rock found inside the Earth

Question 2

Lava

Answer 2

Hot liquid rock found outside Earth’s surface

Question 3

Volcano

Answer 3

Mountain that forms when magma pushes up through the Earth’s surface

Question 4

Convergent plate boundary

Answer 4

Plates come together “collide”

Question 5

Divergent plate boundary

Answer 5

Plates move apart “divide”

Question 6

Hot spot

Answer 6

Very hot places in the mantle where magma rises up & melts through the crust above

Question 7

Ring of Fire

Answer 7

Big volcano zone almost all the way around the Pacific Ocean

Question 8

Mid-Ocean Ridge

Answer 8

Large underwater mountain chain at places where plates move apart

Question 9

Magma chamber

Answer 9

Pockets of molten rock inside volcanoes

Question 10

Conduit

Answer 10

Tube in the middle of a volcano where magma comes up

Question 11

Vent

Answer 11

Opening where magma comes out of a volcano

Question 12

Shield volcano

Answer 12

Huge and wide (the biggest)

Question 13

Cinder cone volcano

Answer 13

Tiny and steep volcano (the smallest)

Question 14

Composite volcano

Answer 14

Tall and steep volcano (middle-sized – look like mountains

Question 15

Basaltic (Mafic) magma

Answer 15

Dark magma that makes gentle, flowy eruptions (pahoehoe & aa are examples)

Question 16

Andesitic magma

Answer 16

Light and dark magma that makes explosive eruptions

Question 17

Granitic (Felsic or Rhyolitic) magma

Answer 17

Light magma that makes explosive eruptions

Question 18

Plutons

Answer 18

Igneous rock that forms underground – “Intrusive”