This printable crossword puzzle on the topic of Plate Tectonics & Volcanoes has 41 clues. Answers range from 2 to 18 letters long. This crossword is also available to download as a Microsoft Word document or a PDF.
What is the hot fluid that forms lava and igneous rocks?
When a volcano erupts, what is the fluid that pours out?
What is a broad-domed volcano with gently sloping sides?
The opening of a volcano.
A pool of magma below the surface.
What is a large volcanic crater called?
A large,hollow forming at the mouth of a volcano.
What are the small pieces of burnt coal or wood that still have matter on them?
A lump of lava thrown out of a volcano.
An opening near a volcano.
What is the matter that is classified as any volcanic fragment thrown through the air by volcanic eruption?
Small particles released into the air by an eruption, form clouds, can cover large areas.
Fine particles of rocks powder blown from a volcano that stay in the atmosphere.
Simplest volcano type, occur when particles and blobs of lava are ejected from volcanic vents, lava flies into air and rains over vent.
Known as strato volcanoes, have clusters of vents, lava can break through walls, etc.
Large, broad volcanoes, look like a piece of armor, the lava from them can travel great distances.
Volcano built out of alternate layers of lava and ash.
Igneous rocks cool from magma slowly because they are buried beneath the surface, so they have large crystals.
Igneous rocks cool from lava rapidly because they form at the surface, so they have small crystals.
A famous composite volcano from the state of Washington.
Famous shield volcano from Hawaii, biggest in the world.
A type of rock formed by the cooling of lava and magma.
Ash clouds contain poisonous _____ ?
A volcano that is not expected to erupt is called ______ ?
A volcano that is expected to erupt or has signs of eruption.
A light rock that is erupted from a volcano and resembles a sponge.
An opening in Earth's surface that erupts sulfurous gases, lava, ash, and can form plate boundaries.
The term used when a volcano is active.
How many types of volcanoes are there?
Lava can travel up to how fast during an eruption?
What country has the most volcanoes?
About how many volcanoes are on the Earth?
This volcano buried Pompeii.
'Volcano' comes from what word?
This is how most shield volcanoes erupt.
An eruption where magma rises to the Earth's surface and spills over the volcano.
An eruption where magma is torn apart as it rises to the surface.
A lake that used to be a volcano.
Forms during an under water eruption, a lava.
Basaltic lava, doesn't flow quickly.
Thinner lava, not very viscous, can flow down sides of volcanoes like rivers.