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Geology
8th Grade
04/03/2012

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What is a volcano?
Definition
A weak spot in the Earths crust where magma comes to the surface
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What is magma?
Definition
Molten materail of rock forming substances, gases, and water from the mantle
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Where do most volcanoes form?
Definition
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?
Definition
Ring of Fire
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What is an example of a volcano that formed at a hot spot?**
Definition
Hawiian islands
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What is a divergent boundry volcano?
Definition
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?
Definition
Great Rift Valley, East Africa
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What is a convergent boundry volcano?
Definition
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?
Definition
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?
Definition
The oceanic plate subducts beneath the continenal causing trenches and volcanoes
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What is a hot spot?****
Definition
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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What is a hot spring?
Definition
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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What is a geyser?
Definition
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?
Definition
Old Faithfull, Yellowstone park
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What is Geothermal energy?
Definition
The energy from underground
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What is a lava plateau?
Definition
A lava plateau is a high level area of hardened lava
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What is a caldera?
Definition
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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What is a Dike?
Definition
A slab of vertical/diagnoal volcano rock tht formed when magma cut thro layers of rock
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What is a sill?
Definition
A horizontal slab of rock tht formed when magma squeezed and forced itslef btween layers of rock
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What is a batholith?
Definition
Huge rock masses tht form the core of mts
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What is a dome mt?
Definition
Smaller bodies of hardened lava uplidted by compression
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What is volcanic soil?
Definition
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?
Definition
Volcanic rock
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What is pyroclastic rock?
Definition
The explosion of ash cinders bombs and gases during a explosive volcanic eruption
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What is a quiet eruption?
Definition
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?
Definition
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?
Definition
Ash, Cinder, lava Bombs, pyroclastic flows and deadly gases
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What is an active volcano?:
Definition
One tht is currently erupting and shows signs tht is going to erupt again
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What is a dormant volcano?
Definition
One tht is not currently erupting but is expected to erupt again
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What is an extinct volcano?
Definition
A volcano tht is unlikly to erupt in the near future
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How do scietists try to predict eruptions?
Definition
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?
Definition
Shieldm Cinder Cone, Composite
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How are volcanoes classified?
Definition
Shape, foramtion, lava type, and eruptions
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What are shield volcanoes?
Definition
Wide volcanpes with low visosity pahoehoe lava and gentle eruption
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What are Cinder Cone volcanoes?
Definition
Steep volcanoes with high viscosity AA lava and explosive eruptions
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What are composite volcanoes?
Definition
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?
Definition
Hawiian islands
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What is an eg of a cinder cone volcano
Definition
PArautin MT
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what is an eg of a composite volcano?
Definition
Mt st Helen
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What does a volcanoes shape composition and the way it erupts depend on?
Definition
The viscosity of its magma
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What is viscosity?
Definition
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>
Definition
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