Volcanic Terms: Islands, Explosions, Types, and Geothermal Features, Quizzes of Geography

Download Volcanic Terms: Islands, Explosions, Types, and Geothermal Features and more Quizzes Geography in PDF only on Docsity! TERM 1 Mauna Loa DEFINITION 1 island of Hawaiitallest mountain on planet TERM 2 explosive DEFINITION 2 relatively violent eruptions because conduit often gets plugged with cooled / solidified magma, increasing pressure TERM 3 explosive DEFINITION 3 most commonly found along subduction zonesalong convergent plates TERM 4 explosive DEFINITION 4 primarily felsic magma with a much greater content of pyroclastics TERM 5 composite volcano or stratvolcanic DEFINITION 5 eruption through a vent of explosive TERM 6 explosive volcano DEFINITION 6 mt. st. helensmt. pintabumt. r... TERM 7 lahar DEFINITION 7 a flood of ash, mud, & water created by melting of snowcap during an eruption or volcanic eventaccompanies explosive erutionone created by the 1985 eruption of Nevado del Ruiz in CLimbia killed people TERM 8 NUEE AREDENTES PYROCLATIC FLOW OR CLOUD DEFINITION 8 a cloud of hot volcanic gas & ash that moves down the flanks of the volcanoa flow created during the 1902 eruption of Mount Pele on the island of Martinique wets indues annihilated the town of st pierre kiling over 30000 peopleclouds of ash and gas goes up and down slope TERM 9 phreatic erutions DEFINITION 9 violent, explosive eruptions made more sever by waterturns into dust and ashmt st helens TERM 10 cinder cone DEFINITION 10 volcano that consists of cinder sized tephra, with little or no lava and are usually less than 200 m