Types of Volcanoes Guided Notes

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What is the relationship between craters, calderas,

vents, and magma? The relationship between craters,
calderas, vents, and magma because the vent connects to the
crater which is the top of the volcano and the larger depressions of
the calderas can form at the summit. The magma flows throughout.

How does a crater lake form? (words and pictures)

Crater lakes can form when the summit or the side of a volcano
collapses into the magma chamber that once fueled the volcano.

What two factors does a volcanos appearance

depend upon? The two factors that can influence the

appearance of a volcano depends on the type of material that forms

the volcano and the type of eruptions that occur.
What characteristics vary among volcanoes? size,
shape, and composition vary between volcanoes.

Complete the following table in your notes:

Type of
Volcano

Shield

Material Sketch
s&
Descripti
on
-Broad,
slightly
domeshaped
-Not steep
-Mild
eruptions
large
volumes of
basaltic
lava

Exam
ple

-Mauna
Loa
Femandi
na island

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CinderCone

-small size
-steep
slope angle
-built from
elected
lava
fragments

Paricutin
-Wizard
island

Composite
(Stratovolca
no)

Symmetrica
l cone
-many
located in
Pacific Ring
of Fire
-Composed
of
interbedde
d lava flows
and layers
on
pyroclastic
debris

-Mount
Fuji
-Mount
Rainier

How do the volcanoes compare in terms of size

and slope? volcanoes compare in terms of sizes because the# all
have di4erent sizes and one volcano could be a steep slope and
another could not be very steep.

What factors cause differences in size and slope?

There are many factors that go into the size and slope of a volcano
but the main elements are the variety of eruption types,
composition of the volcano, the volume of the volcanic products,
and the environment that is around the volcano.
What is tephra? Tephra is the rock fragments and particles
elected by a volcano.

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What is a pyroclastic flow?

Violent Volcanic eruptions can

send clouds of gas, ash, and other tephra down slope at incredible
speeds.
Where are most volcanoes found? Most volcanoes are
found at convergent and divergent boundaries.

Use the maps provided to show: (1) the Circum Pacific

Belt and the Mediterranean Belt where convergent
volcanism occur and (2) the Hawaiian Emperor Volcanic
Chain.
How do hotspots form? Hotspots form when heat rises in the
mantle as thermal plume from deep in the earth (core). High heat
and lower pressure at a base of the lithosphere (tectonic plate)
facilitates melting of the rock.

What do hotspots tell us about tectonic plates?

Hotspots are places where tectonic, especially volcanic activity is
especially strong, often breaking through a plate even though it is
not at the juncture of two plates.

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