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| A weak spot in the Earths crust where magma comes to the surface |
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| Molten materail of rock forming substances, gases, and water from the mantle |
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| Where do most volcanoes form? |
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| tectonic plate boundires or hot spots |
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| What is an example of a volcano(S) that formed at a tectonic plate boundiry? |
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| What is an example of a volcano that formed at a hot spot?** |
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| What is a divergent boundry volcano? |
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| A volcano that formed at a divergent boundry, where the EArths plates are pulling apart |
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| What is an example of a divergent boundry volcano? |
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Great Rift Valley, East Africa
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| What is a convergent boundry volcano? |
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A volcano that formed where the Earths plates are colliding and subducting
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| What happens at an oceanic/oceanic convergent boundry that forms a volcano? |
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| 2 oceanic plates collide and the older one is pushed up into the mantle, it melts |
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| What happen at an oceanic/continental convergent boundry to form a volcano? |
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The oceanic plate subducts beneath the continenal causing trenches and volcanoes
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| A hot spot is a place where hot magama rises to reach the surface. When this happens in the middle of a plate it stays consistant and lead to a trail of volcanoes. |
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A hot spring is groundwater heated by a body of magma tht rises to the surface and collects in a natural pool
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A geyser is a ft of water and steam tht erupts and sprays the surface to pressure underground
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| What is an ex of a geyser? |
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Old Faithfull, Yellowstone park
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| What is Geothermal energy? |
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The energy from underground
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A lava plateau is a high level area of hardened lava
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| A caldera is a large hole at the top of a volcano that can form if the roof of a volcanoes magma chamber collapses |
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A slab of vertical/diagnoal volcano rock tht formed when magma cut thro layers of rock
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A horizontal slab of rock tht formed when magma squeezed and forced itslef btween layers of rock
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| Huge rock masses tht form the core of mts |
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Smaller bodies of hardened lava uplidted by compression
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Rich fertile soil formed by the break dowwn of lava ash and cinders near active volcanoes
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| What does magma harden to form? |
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| What is pyroclastic rock? |
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The explosion of ash cinders bombs and gases during a explosive volcanic eruption
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| What is a quiet eruption? |
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| A quiet eruption is a eruption from a volcano that has low silica and viscosity magma that releases as easy flowing lava |
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| What is an explosive eruption? |
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A explosive eruption is a eruption from a volcano with high viscosity and high silica magma with trapped gases
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| What does an explosive eruption produce? |
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Ash, Cinder, lava Bombs, pyroclastic flows and deadly gases
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| What is an active volcano?: |
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One tht is currently erupting and shows signs tht is going to erupt again
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| What is a dormant volcano? |
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One tht is not currently erupting but is expected to erupt again
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| What is an extinct volcano? |
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A volcano tht is unlikly to erupt in the near future
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| How do scietists try to predict eruptions? |
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By observing ground elevation movements, gases escaping vents, and temp increases in ground water
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| Wjat are the 3 types of volcanoes? |
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Shieldm Cinder Cone, Composite
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| How are volcanoes classified? |
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| Shape, foramtion, lava type, and eruptions |
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| What are shield volcanoes? |
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Wide volcanpes with low visosity pahoehoe lava and gentle eruption
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| What are Cinder Cone volcanoes? |
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Steep volcanoes with high viscosity AA lava and explosive eruptions
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| What are composite volcanoes? |
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Tall volcanoes with pahoehoe and AA lava and switches from gentle to explosive eruptions
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| What is an eg of a shield volcano? |
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| What is an eg of a cinder cone volcano |
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| what is an eg of a composite volcano? |
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| What does a volcanoes shape composition and the way it erupts depend on? |
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The viscosity of its magma
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A physical propery of a liquid tht describes its ability to flow
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| Do liquids with greater viscosity move faster or slower> |
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