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Name__________
active
dormant
nuclear waste
mantle
lava
composite volcano
Vocabulary
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geological time
magma
extinct
core
crust
cinder cone
paleontologist
scale
lithosphere
shield volcano
1. ____________ Small volcano made from cinders, most common type of volcano.
2. ____________ Volcano that is currently erupting or will erupt in the near future.
3. ____________ Volcano that has gentle sloping sides, nonexplosive eruptions; slow
moving lava.
4. ____________ This area of the earth includes the crust and upper mantle; broken into
plates.
5. ____________ A scientist who explores the past by studying fossils.
6. ____________ Very large volcano with wide base that gets extremely steep towards the
peak has explosive eruptions, very destructive
7. ____________ melted rock that flows on the surface of the earth.
8. ____________ Molten rock in the earth’s mantle.
9. ____________ The thinnest layer of the earth, we live on this layer.
10. ____________ a volcano that has not erupted in a very long time, but still has the ability
to do so.
11. ____________ A volcano that scientist believe will never erupt again.
12. ____________ The center of the earth, broken into two layers, one is liquid, one is solid.
13. ____________ Radioactive material that must be disposed of probably.
14. ____________ The size of a diagram or model in proportion to the actual size of an
object (example: 1cm = 200 km on a map).
15. ____________ the layer of the earth between the crust and the core is the thickest layer.
16. ____________ Periods of thousands, millions and billions of years referred by geologist.
Test Review
Volcanoes: 36-39
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Which layer of the earth is the thickest?
What is the most common type of volcano?
What is the lithosphere?
What period of time is from 250-500 million years ago?
What is a composite volcano and give an example?
How do explosive eruptions affect the earth?
What time period are we in now?
How old is the earth?
describe two of the three types of volcanoes: Include:
 Type of explosion
 What the volcanoes look like
 how the explosion affects the area
 an example of each volcano
10. What does a non-explosive eruption look like?