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Fill in the blank:
1.  When magma reaches the surface, it is called _________
2.  A large packet of magma beneath the surface is known as ________
3.  Most volcanoes happen between the ______of the Earth's continents
4.  When two plates meet at the edge of an ocean, this is ____________
5.  ________are places like Hawaii or Yellowstone with volcanic action
6.  Fast moving super-hot lava has a funny name called ___________
7.  Slow moving cooler - lava has a funny name called ___________
8.  Two kinds of volcano rocks are _________ and  ____________
9.  ___________is a famous volcano with read hot lava beds in Hawaii
10. The ______________ is the large top of the volcano after eruption

(
pumice and obsidian, crater, plates, lava, magma chamber, subduction,
pahoehoe,  Kilauea, aa, hot-spots )


Part Two:

1.  There are three types of lava, based on size :  ( name them )
______________ are pebble - size paticles
______________size of baseball to the large size of a car
______________ size of very small grains of sand/ can get into your eyes
( cinders, bombs, ash )

2.  Volcanoes blow ( erupt) two basic ways:  name them---
________________________ and  ___________________

3.  The most serious explosion is where there is a big combination of cinders, ash, lava, hot gases, and large bombs of boulders down a valley.
This is called a  ______________ flow.

4.   MATCH these volcanoes with stories:  ( Mt St Helens, Krakatau, Mt. Pinatubo, Mt Etna, and Mt. Fuji:
a. most active volcano in the World, lava flows down into city set fires
b. famous large  snow-cap volcano of Japan
c.  a most violent eruption on island in Indonesia head 2,000 miles away
d. USA volcano in Washington that had major eruption in l980
e. 1991 blast in the Philippines that sent ash high up in sky for miles

5. What are the three terms to describe the life cycle or age of a volcano in its stages of activity?  _________________________________________

6. 
The following pictures are landforms made from a volcano blast:
( name them : batholiths, volcano neck, caldera, dikes/sill, geysers

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7.  Summarize the "Mexican farmer" story:

8.  draw a volcano and label all its parts:
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