Volcanic and Geologic Terms

Worksheet


Aa:



Active Volcano:


Andesite:


Ash:


Ashfall (Airfall):


Ashflow:


Avalanche:


Basalt:


Block:


Bomb:


Caldera:


Cinder Cone:


Composite volcano:


Continental crust:


Continental drift:


Crater:


Dacite:


Debris avalanche:


Detachment plane:


Dome:


Dormant volcano:


Ejecta:


Eruption:


Eruption cloud:


Eruptive vent:


Extinct volcano:


Fault:


Fissures:


Flank eruption:


Fumarole:


Geothermal energy:


Geothermal power:


Graben:


Harmonic Tremor:


Heat transfer:


Horizontal blast:


Hot-spot volcanoes:


Hydrothermal reservoir:


Lahar:


Lapilli:


Lava:


Lava Flow:


Lava tube:


Magma:


Magma chamber:


Mantle:


Magnitude:


Mudflow:


Nuee ardente:


Obsidian:


Oceanic crust:


Phreatic eruption (explosion):


Pillow lava:


Plate techtonics:


Plug:


Plug dome:


Pluton:


Pumic:


Pyroclastic:


Pyroclastic flow:


Rhylolite:


Ridge, Oceanic:


Rift system:


Ring of Fire:


Seafloor spreading:


Seismograph:


Shearing:


Shield volcano:


Silica:


Stratovolcano:


Spines:


Strike-slip fault:


Subduction zone:


Tephra:


Tsunami:


Tuff:


Vent:


Viscosity:


Volcanic complex:


Vulcan: