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•E.Q.: What are the characteristics and examples of the different types of volcanic
eruptions?
Volcano Vocabulary
•E.Q.: What are the characteristics and examples of the different types of volcanic
eruptions?
Volcano
• Opening in the Earth’s surface
that erupts sulfurous gases, ash
and lava
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eruptions?
Vent
• Opening where magma is forced
up and flows out onto Earth’s
surface
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eruptions?
Crater
• Steep walled depression
around a volcano’s vent
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eruptions?
Magma
• Hot melted rock below the
Earth’s surface
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eruptions?
Magma Chamber
• Deep well underground that
holds magma under a volcano
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eruptions?
Lava
• Thick gooey molten rock material
flowing from volcanoes onto
Earth’s surface
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eruptions?
Plate Tectonics
Earth’s crust, and upper mantle are broken
into plates that flow and move around on
plastic-like layer of the mantle
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eruptions?
Divergent Plate Boundary
Boundary between two plates that
are moving apart
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eruptions?
Convergent Plate Boundary
• place where Earth’s plates
move toward each other
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eruptions?
Shield Volcano
Broad, gently sloping volcano formed by
quiet eruptions of lava. Found mostly
where Earth’s plates move apart from
each other. Formed from basaltic lava.
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eruptions?
Tephra
• Bits of rocks and solidified lava dropped
from the air during an explosive volcanic
eruptions; range in size from volcanic
ashes to volcanic bombs and blocks
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eruptions?
Cinder Cone Volcano
Steep sides, loosely packed volcano formed
when tephra falls to the ground. Formed
from andesitic lava.
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eruptions?
Composite Volcano
Volcano built by alternating explosive and quiet eruptions
that produce layers of tephra and lava; has broad base
with a steep top; found mostly where Earth’s plates
come together and one plate sinks below the other.
Formed from granitic magma.
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eruptions?
Hot Spot
• Unusually hot area where magma breaks
through the crust and forms a volcano. Not
at a plate boundary. This is how Hawaii
formed.