Chapter 6- Review / Study Guide
1) What is a volcano?
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2) What is magma?
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3) What is lava?
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4) Where are volcanoes located?
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5) What is the Ring of Fire?
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6) What happens at a divergent   plate boundary?
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7) Where are divergent plate boundaries located?
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8) What happens at convergent   plate boundaries?
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9) Where are convergent plate boundaries located?
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10) What is subduction?
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11) What happens when two oceanic plates collide?
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12) What is an island arc?
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13) What happens when an oceanic plate collides with a continental plate?
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14) What is a hot spot?
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15) Identify examples of hot spot volcanoes.
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16) Why does magma flow upward into cracks on the Earth’s surface?
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17) What causes a volcano to erupt?
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18) What is a magma chamber?
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19) What is a pipe?
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20) What is a vent?
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21) What is a lava flow?
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22) What is a crater?
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23) Describe the two different types of lava.
[ Mr. Fox’s trick ]
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24) What is silica?
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25) Describe silica-rich ( high in silica ) lava.
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26) Describe lava that is low in silica content.
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27) What determines whether a volcano erupts violently or quietly?
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28) Describe a violent eruption.
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29) Describe a quiet eruption.
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30) What is Pahoehoe? [ rhymes with ! ]
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31) What is Aa?
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32) What is pyroclastic flow?
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33) Describe an active volcano.
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34) Describe a dormant volcano.
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35) Describe an extinct volcano.
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36) What is hot spring?
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37) What is a geyser?
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38) What is geothermal energy?
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39) How are volcanoes monitored?
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40) What are the hazards associated with volcanoes?
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41) Describe a shield volcano. …………………………………………………………………….
42) Describe a cinder cone volcano. …………………………………………………………………
43) Describe a composite volcano. ……………………………………………………………………..
44) Describe a lava plateau. ………………………………………………………………………………
45) Describe a caldera. ………………………………………………………………………………………
46) What is a volcanic neck? ……………………………………………………………………………….
47) What is a dike? ……………………………………………………………………………………………….
48) What is a sill? …………………………………………………………………………………………………..
49) What is a batholith? ………………………………………………………………………………………..
50) What is a dome mountain?
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51) Describe the volcanic evidence on the moon.
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52) Describe the volcanoes of Venus.
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53) Describe the volcanoes of Mars.
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54) What is the largest volcano in our solar system?
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55) What is Io? ………………………………………………………………………………………….
56) What is Triton? …………………………………………………………………………………..
57) Describe the volcanoes on Io.
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58) Describe the volcanoes of Triton.
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59) Name the three stages of a volcano’s life cycle.
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60) Describe the eruption associated with each volcano type.
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61) Name and describe the three types of volcanic fragments.
Name of Fragment
Size