Volcanoes
Across
- 5. A type of volcano with broad, gentle slopes and built by the eruption of fluid basalt lava
- 7. Occurs where the edge of a continental plate collides with an oceanic plate
- 8. In 1980, this Washington State mountain gave North America its largest volcanic eruption
- 10. A string of islands formed by the volcanoes along a deep ocean trench
- 14. Marks a divergent plate boundary
- 18. Large ocean wave created by undersea earthquakes or volcanic eruptions
- 19. The eruption of Nevado del Ruiz with its devastating mud slides occurred in this South American nation in 1985
- 20. An opening or crack in the earth's surface through which lava flows
Down
- 1. Active volcanoes on land
- 2. Mountains formed from the build-up of volcanic lava often take this shape
- 3. 1883 volcanic eruption in southeast Asia that killed 36,000 people
- 4. Adds new rock to existing land and forms near new islands
- 6. An area where magma from deep within the mantle melts through the crust like a blow torch
- 9. Molten rock that erupts from volcanoes
- 11. A volcano that is erupting or has erupted recently
- 12. A volcano that has not erupted recently, but may do so in the future
- 13. A vent at the earth's surface through which magma and gases erupt
- 15. A volcano that will not erupt again
- 16. The zone of earthquakes and volcanoes surrounding the Pacific Ocean
- 17. Molten rock that is found beneath the earth's surface