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Mr. Biando's Lab
Mr. Biando's Lab - Causes of volcanic eruptions
| Definition | Term |
|---|---|
| An area surrounding the Pacific Ocean in which over 75 percent of the world's volcanoes are located. | Ring of Fire |
| Tectonic plates that move away from each other. | Divergent Boundary |
| A place where tectonic plates collide. | Convergent Boundary |
| An area of deep cracks that forms between two tectonic plates that are pulling away from each other. | Rift Zone |
| An area undersea that produces volcanoes and mountain chains by magma that flows out from between two divergent plates. | Mid-ocean ridges |
| The movement of one tectonic plate underneath another. | Subduction |
| A volcanically active area of Earth's surface far from a tectonic plate boundary. | Hot spots |
| Columns of rising magma. | Mantle plumes |
| Volcanoes that are "sleeping" or not currently actively erupting. | Dormant Volcanoes |
| Volcanoes that have not erupted in recorded history and probably never will erupt again. | Extinct Volcano |
| Volcanoes that are currently erupting or showing signs of erupting. | Active volcanoes |
| A scientific instrument that helps scientist detect small changes in the angle of a volcano's slope. | Tiltmeter |
| Four measurements that scientist use to predict volcanic eruptions. | Seismic activity, gas composition, angle of slope, and surface temperature. |