Types of Volcanoes Guided Notes page 480

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What is the relationship between craters, calderas, vents, and
magma?
are all part of the anatomy of a volcano
How does a crater lake form? (words and pictures)
- Forms when the summit or the side of a volcano collapses into
the magma chamber.

What two factors does a volcanos appearance depend upon?
1. Type of material that forms the volcano
2. Type of eruption that occurs
What characteristics vary among volcanoes?
- Size, shape, and composition.








Types of Volcanoes Guided Notes page 480
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Complete the following table in your notes:
Type of Volcano Materials &
Description
Sketch Example
Shield Broad slopes
and a nearly
circular base.
Forms from
Basaltic lava

Mauna Loa
Cinder-Cone Generally small
with steep
sides and form
when material
ejected high
into the air
falls back to
Earth and piles
up around the
vent

Izalco volcano
in El Salvador
Composite
(Stratovolcano)
Large with
steep sides and
forms when
layers of
volcanic
fragments
alternate with
lava and are
violently
explosive
Mount St.
Helens

Mount Rainier

Types of Volcanoes Guided Notes page 480
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How do the volcanoes compare in terms of size and slope?
- Shield volcanos are the largest. Cinder Cone volcanos are the
smallest and composite is somewhere in the middle. Cinder
Cone and Composite are both concave and shield volcanos are
more straight.
What factors cause differences in size and slope?
- Materials that make up the volcanos, vegetation, local climate,
and eruptive history.
What is tephra?
- Rock fragments thrown into the air during a volcanic eruption
What is a pyroclastic flow?
- Rapid moving volcanic material.
Where are most volcanoes found?
- Along convergent 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?
- Unusually hot regions of the earths mantle where high-
temperature plumes of mantle material rise toward the
surface.
What do hotspots tell us about tectonic plates?
- It can tell its relative age. If it has moved an any major changes
it has undergone.


Types of Volcanoes Guided Notes page 480
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