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What is a crater?
A bowl-shaped are that may form at the top of a volcano around the central vent.
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What are dissolved gases?
These help make a volcano explode under great pressure.
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What is a crater's rim?
Both eruptions can cause damage to this.
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What is lava?
This has created the islands of Hawaii.
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What is a hot-spot?
These drift away from this.
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What is a pipe?
Magma moves upward through this long tube that extends from Earth's crust up through the top of the volcano.
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What is silica?
This is a material found in magma that forms from the elements oxygen and silicon.
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What are hot rock and ash?
These can mix.
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What are volcanic eruptions?
This creates land-forms of tons of different materials.
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What is 10,000,000 years?
This is how long a volcano lives?
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What is a vent?
Molten lava and gas leave the volcano through this opening.
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What is a quiet eruption?
These eruptions produce different types of lava.
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What is a quiet eruption?
They can cause thick layers of lava.
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What is a caldera?
This is a different type of land-form.
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What is an active volcano?
This is when a volcano is erupting.
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What is a lava flow?
This is the spread of lava as it pours out of a vent.
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What is 750-117?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!! This is the temperature of lava that can range from this amount of Celsius and hot enough to melt copper.
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What is a pyroclastic flow?
This is a mixture hot gases, ash, cinders, and bombs.
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What is a cinder cone volcano?
This is a type of volcano.
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What is a dormant volcano?
This is a sleeping volcano.
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What is a magma chamber?
Magma collects in this.
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What is an explosive eruption?
This is the type of eruption that happened with Mount St. Helens.
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What is a landslide?
This is mud, melted snow, and rock.
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What is magma?
This creates volcanic necks, dikes, sills, dome mountains, and batholiths.
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What is a Pahoehoe?
This type of lava is low in silica, very hot and very runny.
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