Volcanoes Vocabulary

1. Volcano - mountain that forms as lava flows through a crack onto

Earths surface.
2. Composite Volcano - tall, steep, cone-shape volcano mae of layers of
ash, rock, an lava. E!plosive eruptions.
". #hiel Volcano - broa, ome-shape volcano with gentle slopes.
Erupts slowly.
$. Ciner Cone Volcano - small, steep, cone-shape volcano. E!plosive
eruptions.
%. &agma - melte rock uner the surface of the Earth.
'. &agma Chamber - an enclose space where magma collects below the
surface of the Earth.
(. )ava - magma is calle lava when it reaches the Earths surface.
*. +sh Clou - burnt material that shoots out of the top of a volcano an
forms a clou.
,. Central Vent - the main pathway in the center of a volcano from which
lava flows upwar.