What are volcanoes | Types of volcanoes | Effects of volcano eruptions | Slightly harder ,completely random | random crazy wild questions |
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What is a volcano?
A vent or fissure in the Earth's surface in which magma and gases are unleashed
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What is a magma chamber?
The part of a volcano where the magma forms
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What is volcanic ash?
What causes sun blockage after an eruption
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What are cinder cone volcanoes?
The smallest type of volcano.The general height is no more than 300 meters
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What is the ring of fire?
where volcanoes erupt
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What is magma?
Liquid rock produced under the Earth's surface
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What is a shield volcano?
Volcanoes that form at hotspots
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What are lahars?
Fast moving mud flows that bury everything in their path
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What are composite volcanoes?
Another name for Strata-volcanoes
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What is the summit crater?
The top part of a volcano
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What are tectonic plates?
Where volcanoes form
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What is the difference between magma and lava?
They have different names and are both hot.One is underground.One is above ground
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What is pumice?
Volcanic rock used in facial scrubs and cleaners
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What is pyroclastic flows?
They are produced when a volcano ejects an enormous amount of smoking hot ash,dust,and toxic gases
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What are hot spots?
Where shield volcanoes form
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What is a divergent boundary?
Where to tectonic plates pull away from each other
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What is pahoehoe?
lava that forms a thin crust and wrinkles as magma flows under
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What is Geysers geothermal power plant near Santa Rosa?
worlds largest producer of geothermal energy
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What is volcanic ash?
Form when the gases in stiff magma expand rapidly and the walls of the gas bubbles explode into glass like silvers.
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What is Krafla?
A fissure volcano in Iceland
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What is the formation of magma?
The decrease in pressure on a rock
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What is Teide?
The third largest volcano on Earth;Located on the Canary Islands
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What is result of eruption on island of Sumbawawa?
death of 10,000 Indonesians in April 1815
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What are volcanic bombs?
large blobs of magma that harden in the air
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What is Muana Kea?
10 km tall Hawaiin volcano
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