Volcanoes
Across
- 4. Fast moving avalanches of hot gas, ash, and rock
- 5. Large, steep volcanoes that result from explosive eruptions of andesitic and rhyolitic lava and ash along convergent plate boundaries
- 7. Very large volcanoes such as the one below Yellowstone that have large and explosive eruptions
- 10. Small, steep-sided volcanoes that erupt gas-rich basaltic lavas
- 12. A giant wave that is usually caused by an earthquake beneath the ocean floor.
Down
- 1. An area of earthquake and volcanic activity that surrounds the Pacific Ocean
- 2. Volcanoes common along divergent plate boundaries and oceanic hot spots.They are large with gentle slopes of basaltic lavas
- 3. Rising currents of hot mantle material over a hot spot
- 6. Tiny particles of pulverized rock and glass.
- 8. A vent in Earth's crust through which molten rocks flows
- 9. Volcanoes that are not associated with plate boundaries
- 11. Molten rock beneath Earth's surface