Types of Volcanoes Guided Notes page 480

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What is the relationship between craters, calderas, vents, and
magma?
They are all parts of the anatomy of a volcano.
How does a crater lake form? (words and pictures)
Crater lakes are formed when a caldera (large craters that can be
up to 50 km in diameter) is filled with water.
What two factors does a volcanos appearance depend upon?
What characteristics vary among volcanoes?
The type of material that forms the volcano, and the type of
eruptions that occurs.
Complete the following table in your notes:
Type of
Volcano
Materials
&
Descripti
on
Sketch Example
Shield Basalt,
long
gently
sloping
sides


Mauna
Loa in
Hawaii
Cinder-Cone Water
and
Silica,
steep
sides


Izalco
volcano in
El
salvador
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Composite
(Stratovolcan
o)
Silica,
water,
and
gases;

Mount St.
Helens in
Washingt
on state.

How do the volcanoes compare in terms of size and slope?
Gradual Steep
Shield, Composite, Cinder-Cone
Smallest Biggest
Cinder-Cone, Composite, Shield
What factors cause differences in size and slope?
Differences in material, vegetation on volcanos slopes, climate,
and eruptive history of volcano.
What is tephra?
Rock fragments thrown into the air during an eruption.
What is a pyroclastic flow?
The rapid movement of gas, ash, and other tephra down the
slopes at high speeds.
Where are most volcanoes found?
At plate 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?
When high-temperature plumes of mantle rise towards the
surface, and melt the rock to form volcanoes.
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What do hotspots tell us about tectonic plates?
It can tell us the rate and direction a plate is moving, through
the chain of volcanoes it creates.
Mediterranean Circum-Pacific






Hawaiian-Emperor Volcanic Chain