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Volcano Types

Practice types of volcanoes/eruptions

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What type of volcano is often wide and somewhat flat, erupting more quietly with lava oozing out. Shield Volcano
What type of volcano always erupts violently with cinders and ash and smaller amounts of lava "bombs"? Cinder Cone Volcano
What type of volcano sometimes erupts violently and sometimes erupts more gently? Composite or Stratocone Volcano
What type of volcano is made up of alternating layers of ash and lava? Composite or Stratocone Volcano
What type of volcano is currently erupting? Active Volcano
What type of volcano could erupt at any time, but has not erupted in a long time? Dormant Volcano
What type of volcano has a completely cooled magma chamber? Extinct Volcano
How likely is it that an extinct volcano will erupt? It is almost guaranteed not to erupt.
What type of volcano is Yucca? It is an extinct composite (stratocone)volcano.
What type of volcanoes surround Yucca? They are all cinder cones.
Which two types of volcanoes could erupt at any time? Active and Dormant volcanoes
Which type of volcano is showing signs that it could erupt soon, like rumbling, releasing gases, etc.? Active volcanoes can show these signs.
Which name for a type of volcano means that it is "sleeping?" Dormant means this.
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