Ch12 HUM8

1. Plate that contains the Ring of Fire
3. Columbian city destroyed by volcanic mudflows from the Nevado del Ruiz volcano
5. Mythical Mediterranean island kingdom sunk by a barrage of volcanic fire and earthquakes sent by the gods
7. A weakness in the earth's crust that has allowed a volcano to form in the middle of a plate
9. Electricity produced from the heated groundwater or rocks found in volcanically active regions
12. Process during which an oceanic plate is forced under another oceanic or a continental plate, sometimes forming a volcano
13. Sulphur mined from active volcanoes
14. Volcano which erupted in Queensland about 7000 years ago, preserved in stories of the Gudu Badhun people

2. Landform created by a destructive volcanic eruption
4. A conical volcano formed by layers of materials such as volcanic ash, hardened lava and pumice
6. A long thin crack that allows magma to erupt to the surface
8. A fast-moving flow of volcanic ash, rock and gas down the side of an erupting volcano
10. Trait of magma defining its resistance to flow, which determines how explosive a volcanic eruption may be
11. Artist who painted a number of paintings of volcanic eruptions, including spectacular sunsets in England caused by the eruption of Mt Tambora in Indonesia