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volcano vocab
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| volcano | a volcano is any place where gas, ash, or melted rock come spewing out of the ground. |
| magma | Melted rock, called magma, is less dense than normal rock so the less dense magma, the harder and faster it will come spewing out of the volcano. |
| lava | lava is magma that has reached the surface of the volcano. |
| vent | opening of a volcano. |
| tectonic plates | giant sections on Earth's lithosphere on Earth's surface. |
| Divergent boundaries | plates that move away from each other. |
| convergent boundaries | two plates that move towards each other. |
| Hot spots | A location where a column of extremely hot mantle rock rises through the athenosphere. |
| craters | a crater is a opening or an depression at the top of a volcano. |
| calderas | a caldera is when lava empties out of of the volcano leaving the ground to collapse.(which causes a sinkhole) |