5: Volcano Vocabulary Review

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An area where material from deep within Earth’s mantle rises through the crust and melts to form magma.

A long tube that extends from Earth’s crust up through the top of a volcano, connecting the magma chamber to Earth’s surface.

The spread of lava as it pours out of a vent.

A string of volcanoes that form as the result of subduction of one oceanic plate beneath a second oceanic plate.

A bowl-shaped area that may form at the top of a volcano around the central vent.

The name for magma that reaches the Earth’s surface.

A mountain that forms in Earth’s crust when molten material, or magma, reaches the surface.

A steep, cone-shaped hill or small mountain made of volcanic ash, cinders, and bombs piled up around a volcano’s opening.