Volcano

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The formation of the Canary Islands is an example of a

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Hotspot

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The viscosity of magma depends on the temperature and

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silica content

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Fast moving hot lava

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Pahoehoe

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The main hazard from a quiet volcanic eruption is

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lava flows

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Tall, cone-shaped mountains in which layers of lava alternate with layers of ash are called

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Composite volcano

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When many layers of thin, runny lava build up a high, level area, the result is a

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Lava plateau

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The major ingredient of magma is

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Silica

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Before lava reaches the surface, the molten material is called

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Magma

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A mass of rock formed when a large body of magma cools inside the crust is called a

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Batholith

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A volcano that may erupt again at some time in the distant future is

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Dormant

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The huge hole left by the collapse of a volcanic mountain is called a

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Caldera

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When ash, cinders, and bombs build up in a steep pile around a volcano’s vent, the result is a

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Cinder cone volcano

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When magma hardens in a volcano’s pipe, the result will eventually be a landform called a

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Volcanic neck

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Magma that forces across rock layers hardens into a

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Dike

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A major volcanic belt that circles the Pacific

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Ring of Fire

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The resistance of a liquid to flowing is called

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Viscosity

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The bowl-shaped area around a volcano’s central vent is called a(n)

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Crater

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A type of stress force produces reverse faults

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Compression

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A fold in rock that bends upward into an arch

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Anticline

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The point beneath Earth’s surface where rock breaks under stress and triggers an earthquake

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Focus

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A large area of flat land elevated high above sea level is called a

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Plateau

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A type of earthquake wave can travel through both liquids and solids

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P wave

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The transfer of energy through empty space is called

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Radiation

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The name of the supercontinent that existed millions of years ago

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Pangea

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The process by which the ocean floor sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle is known as

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Subduction

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Earth’s magnetic field results from movements in the

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Outer core

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A collision between two pieces of continental crust at a converging boundary produces a

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Mountain range

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The stress force that pulls on the crust where two plates are moving apart

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Tension

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The process in which the violent shaking of an earthquake turns soft soil into liquid mud

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Liquefaction

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Hawaii is this type of volcano

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Shield

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10 mm equals how many cm?

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1 cm

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0 L equals how many mL?

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0 mL

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3 kg equals how many g?

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3000 g

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Unscramble the term

gamma

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magma

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Unscramble the term

yseerg

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geyser

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Unscramble the word

neeeaprhhstos

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Asthenosphere

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Unscramble the word

aavl

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Lava

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.009 kg equals how many g?

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9 g

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22.22 cm equals how many mm?

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222.2

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.07 g equals how many cg?

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7 cg

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A large wave created by an earthquake

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Tsunami

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Southern half of Pangea

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Gondwanaland

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The outermost layer of the earth

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Crust

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Is unlikely to erupt

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Extinct

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Unscramble the word

ltanme

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mantle