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Landforms Essay Topics Capture the Chapter 100 100 200 200 200 300 300 300 400 400 400 500 500 500 Volcanoes and Plates Magma Eruptions 100 200

The ________ is a belt of volcanoes around the rim of the Pacific Ocean. A 100

What is the Ring of Fire? A 100

An area where magma melts through the crust in the middle of a plate is called a(n) _______. A 200

What is a hot spot? A 200

These form along the boundaries of Earth’s plates. A 300

What are volcanic belts? A 300

This volcanic formation occurs where two plates converge and subduction causes crust to be melted in the mantle. A 400

What is an island arc? A 400

This is a weak spot in the crust where molten material reaches Earth’s surface. A 500

What is a volcano? A 500

The molten mixture of rockforming substances, gases, and water deep in Earth’s mantle is called _____. B 100

What is magma? B 100

The more _____ that magma contains, the thicker the magma is. B 200

What is silica? B 200

A substance that cannot be broken down into other substances is a(n) ____. B 300

What is an element? B 300

A substance’s ability to burn is an example of a(n) _________. B 400

What is a chemical property? B 400

Pahoehoe and aa are produced during _____ eruptions. B 500

What are quiet? B 500

A(n) ________ happens when an explosive eruption hurls ash, cinders, bombs, and gases out of a volcano. C 100

What is a pyroclastic flow? C 100

Liquid magma flows upward through the crust because it is _____ dense than the solid material around it. C 200

What is less? C 200

Inside a volcano, magma collects in a pocket called a _________. C 300

What is a magma chamber? C 300

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This is a physical property of magma from a quiet eruption. C 400

What is flows easily, low silica content, low viscosity? (any one of the above will do) C 400

A volcano that is erupting or has shown signs that it may erupt in the future is called _________. C 500

What is active? C 500

A(n) ______ is a wide, gently sloping mountain made of hardened layers of lowsilica lava. D 100

What is a shield volcano? D 100

A(n) ________ forms when magma hardens in a volcano’s pipe and is later exposed. D 200

What is a volcanic neck? D 200

Magma that forces itself across rock layers hardens to form this. D 300

What is a dike? D 300

A(n) ________ is hot water and steam that erupts from the ground. D 400

What is a geyser? D 400

When the top of a volcanic mountain collapses, a ______ forms. D 500

What is a caldera? D 500

This is the energy derived from water that has been heated by magma underground. E 100

What is geothermal energy? E 100

This is why explosive eruptions cause ash, cinders and bombs to be produced. E 200

What is the lava that is ejected has a high viscosity and silica content which forces it to be broken down as it cools to form these particles? (Accept reasonable answers) E 200

This is how geothermal energy is used. E 300

What is for heating homes as hot water and for creating electricity by using steam to power turbines? (Accept reasonable answers) E 300

This is the main difference between a composite volcano and the type of volcano that forms the Hawaiian Islands. E 400

What is the Hawaiian Islands are shield volcanoes made up of thin layers of lava in a gently sloping mountain? (Accept reasonable answers) E 400

An earthquake changed the geysers at Yellowstone National Park. Some geysers now erupt at different times than they did before. This is the reason why these changes may have occurred. E 500

What is the changes may have closed some channels in the rock and opened others or may have widened or narrowed some channels? (Accept reasonable answers) E 500

A(n) _________ is a mass of rock that formed when a large body of magma cooled inside Earth’s crust. F 100

What is a batholith? F 100

Volcanic soils are fertile because they contain ______. F 200

What is phosphorus and potassium? F 200

Layers of thin, runny lava that flow over a wide area before they cool and harden can build up a ______. F 300

What is a lava plateau? F 300

This is the type of volcano that forms when you have a layer of ash, cinders, and bombs followed by a layer of lava then more ash, cinders and bombs. F 400

What is a composite volcano? F 400

These are two factors that affect the force of a volcanic eruption. F 500

What are viscosity and silica content? F 500

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