Volcanoes and Mountains Study Guide

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1. What does a fumarole release? (2 parts)

2. What are some of the effects of volcanic eruptions on Earth's atmosphere? (2 parts)

3. What can be dangerous to people who live hundreds of kilometers from an erupting volcano?

4. What is a sign that might indicate that a volcano might soon erupt?

5. Where does volcanoes form? (3 parts)

6. What makes a pyroclastic flow so dangerous?

7. What is a volcano?

8. Where are blocks of rock that have tilted along faults are common at?

9. Folded mountains form at tectonic boundaries where ……….

10. A folded mountain belt is located far from the edge of a present-day tectonic plate boundary. This mountain belt likely formed………...

11. How does most volcanoes occur?

12. Why do scientist monitor volcanoes?

13. ?What can be dangerous to people who live far from an erupting volcano?

14.

Volcanoes affect Earth's atmosphere by increasing……….

15. What are hot springs that erupt and send hot water shooting into the air called?

16. What is one way that a filed mountain belt can form?

17. When does volcano in folded mountains form?

18. Where are tilted blocks of rock commonly found?

19. What is an opening through which lava, rocks, and gases erupt called?

20. What is a dense cloud of super-hot gases and rock fragments that races downhill from an erupting volcano called?

21. Draw a picture of a volcano and properly label the structure using the following words: rising magma, magma chamber

22. Draw a picture of a volcano and properly label the structure using the following words: rock fragments, and lava flow

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