Chapter 5 Volcanoes

Where are volcanoes found on Earth's surface?

• on the equator

• In North America

• volcanic belts that form along the Earth's plate boudaries

• In the Artic Ocean

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

is a mountain that forms in Earth's crust when molten material, or magma, reaches the surface

• hot spot

• lava

• volcano

• magma

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

True or false: lava is a molten mixture of rock-forming substances, gases, and water from the mantle

• true

• false

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NGSS.MS-PS1-1

True or false: the Ring of Fire is one major belt of volcanoes

• true

• false

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Volcanoes form along what 2 boundaries

• Transform

• Converging

• hot spot

• diverging

a string of islands is a(n)

• hot spot

• volcano

• island arc

• lava

is an area where material from deep within Earth's mantle rises through the crust and melts to form magma

• hot spot

• lava

• magma chamber

• magma

beneath a volcano magma collects in a(n)

• island arc

• vent

• magma chamber

• crater

is a long tube that extends from Earth's crust up through the top of the volcano connecting the magma chamber to Earth's surface

• vent

• pocket

• pipe

• lava flow

where molten rock and gas leave a volcano

• pipe

• crater

• lava

• vent