Earth Science
Across
- 1. pluton is derived from this word
- 4. example of viscosity from the book
- 5. ejected lava fragments that harden in the air
- 6. when a volcano's activity ends
- 7. plume hotter-than-normal mantle material
- 8. volcanic activity that occurs within a plate
- 11. a pluton that forms where magma flows between parallel layers of sedimentary rock
- 14. Broad and gentle slopes
- 15. a landform made of magma that hardened in a volcano's pipe and later was exposed by erosion
- 16. an opening to the surface
- 17. large volcanic mountain composed of layers of both lava and pyroclastic deposits
- 21. a lens-shaped pluton that has pushed the overlying rock layers upward
- 22. a body of intrusive igneous rock that has a surface exposure of more than 100 square kilometers
- 23. the long belt of volcanoes that circles much of the Pacific Ocean
- 24. substance's resistance to flow
Down
- 1. a scorching mixture of glowing volcanic particles and gases that sweep rapidly down the volcano's flanks
- 2. particles produced in volcanic eruptions
- 3. eruptions of lava that eventually build a mountain
- 9. a volcanic landform produced by a repeated eruptions of very fluid, basaltic lava
- 10. volcano that started to erupt in 1999 in Ecuador
- 12. a pluton that forms when magma moves into fractures that cut across rock layers
- 13. magma outside of the volcano
- 18. water-soaked volcanic ash and rock slide rapidly downhill
- 19. steep-walled depression located at the summit of a volcano
- 20. structures that result from the cooling and hardening of magma beneath Earth's surface