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Volcanoes Crossword Puzzle: Name: - Date: - Period

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Volcanoes Crossword Puzzle

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3. opening in Earth’s surface that erupts sulfurous 1. volcano built by alternating explosive and quiet
gases, ash, and lava; can form at Earth’s plate eruptions that produce layers of tephra and lava;
boundaries, where plates move apart or together, found mostly where Earth’s plates come together
and at hot spots and one plate sinks below the other
6. bits of rock or solidified lava dropped from the 2. solid igneous core of a volcano left behind after
air during an explosive volcanic eruption; ranges in the softer cone has been eroded
size from volcanic ash to volcanic bombs and 4. broad, gently sloping volcano formed by quiet
blocks eruptions of basaltic lava
8. igneous rock feature formed when magma is 5. largest intrusive igneous rock body that forms
squeezed into a horizontal crack between layers of when magma being forced upward toward Earth’s
rock and hardens underground crust cools slowly and solidifies underground
10. steep-sided, loosely packed volcano formed 7. steep-walled depression around a volcano’s
when tephra falls to the ground vent
12. large, circular-shaped opening formed when 9. Opening where magma is forced up and flows
the top of a volcano collapses out onto Earth’s surface as lava, forming a volcano
13. the result of an unusually hot area at the 11. igneous rock feature formed when magma is
boundary between Earth’s mantle and core that squeezed into a vertical crack that cuts across
forms volcanoes when melted rock is forced rock layers and hardens underground
upward and breaks through the crust

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