Volcano

A ______ is a duct connecting the magma chamber and the outside of the volcano.

• Vent

• Crater

• Lava flow

• Volcanic cone

An opening on the Earth's crust through which hot molten rock flows out from deep inside the Earth.

• Volcano

• Fault line

• Fold

• Crater

A volcano is a mountain that has an opening to allow hot vapor, and gas to escape from the pool of magma below.

• True

• False

What is a dormant volcano?

• molten rock

• the center of a volcano

• will never erupt again

• a volcano that is sleeping, but could erupt agian

Match the following.

• Mount St. Helens

• A composite volcano that Erupted in 1980

• Shield Volcano

• Determine the explosiveness of a volcano

• Composite Volcano

• Largest type of volcano

• Temperature and Composition of the Magma

• Has quiet and explosive periods

• magma

• Lava underground

Label this image

a

b

c

Ash and gas

Crater of volcano

Flank of volcano

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Let's see what you might know about volcanoes already. Match the following:

• lava dome

• Round shaped and made of viscous lava

• Shield Volcano

• Smallest and simplest type of volcano

• cinder cone volcano

• Tall, steep and symmetrical and                       high -viscosity lava

• Composite Volcano

• Large, broad and produced low viscosity lava

What is magma?

• pieces of the Earth's crust

• molten rock inside of a volcano

• small rock

• plates that meet

What type of volcano is shown on the model above? 

• Composite Volcano

• Shield Volcano

• Cinder Cone Volcano

What type of volcano is shown on the model above? 

• Shield Volcano

• Composite Volcano

• Cinder Cone Volcano

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2