Volcano 2
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- The formation of the Canary Islands is an example of a
- Hotspot
- The viscosity of magma depends on the temperature and
- silica content
- Fast moving hot lava
- Pahoehoe
- The main hazard from a quiet volcanic eruption is
- lava flows
- Tall, cone-shaped mountains in which layers of lava alternate with layers of ash are called
- Composite volcano
- When many layers of thin, runny lava build up a high, level area, the result is a
- Lava plateau
- The major ingredient of magma is
- Silica
- Before lava reaches the surface, the molten material is called
- Magma
- A mass of rock formed when a large body of magma cools inside the crust is called a
- Batholith
- A volcano that may erupt again at some time in the distant future is
- Dormant
- The huge hole left by the collapse of a volcanic mountain is called a
- Caldera
- When ash, cinders, and bombs build up in a steep pile around a volcano’s vent, the result is a
- Cinder cone volcano
- When magma hardens in a volcano’s pipe, the result will eventually be a landform called a
- Volcanic neck
- Magma that forces across rock layers hardens into a
- Dike
- A major volcanic belt that circles the Pacific
- Ring of Fire
- The resistance of a liquid to flowing is called
- Viscosity
- The bowl-shaped area around a volcano’s central vent is called a(n)
- Crater
- A type of stress force produces reverse faults
- Compression
- A fold in rock that bends upward into an arch
- Anticline
- The point beneath Earth’s surface where rock breaks under stress and triggers an earthquake
- Focus
- A large area of flat land elevated high above sea level is called a
- Plateau
- A type of earthquake wave can travel through both liquids and solids
- P wave
- The transfer of energy through empty space is called
- Radiation
- The name of the supercontinent that existed millions of years ago
- Pangea
- The process by which the ocean floor sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle is known as
- Subduction
- Earth’s magnetic field results from movements in the
- Outer core
- A collision between two pieces of continental crust at a converging boundary produces a
- Mountain range
- The stress force that pulls on the crust where two plates are moving apart
- Tension
- The process in which the violent shaking of an earthquake turns soft soil into liquid mud
- Liquefaction
- Hawaii is this type of volcano
- Shield
- 10 mm equals how many cm?
- 1 cm
- 0 L equals how many mL?
- 0 mL
- 3 kg equals how many g?
- 3000 g
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gamma - magma
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yseerg - geyser
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neeeaprhhstos - Asthenosphere
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aavl - Lava
- .009 kg equals how many g?
- 9 g
- 22.22 cm equals how many mm?
- 222.2
- .07 g equals how many cg?
- 7 cg
- A large wave created by an earthquake
- Tsunami
- Southern half of Pangea
- Gondwanaland
- The outermost layer of the earth
- Crust
- Is unlikely to erupt
- Extinct
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ltanme - mantle