Volcanoes

By Seymour Simon

Nature’s Fury

Story

Genre

Strategy

Skill

Nonfiction

Monitor &

Clarify

Categorize

Classify

Volcanoes

Key Vocabulary

• crust

• molten

• magma

• eruption

• cinders

• lava

• crater

• summit

Practice Book

Magma pushes up through cents or cracks in the

earth’s crust

A hole in the

ground that

lava flows from

A mountain or

hill that lava

flows from

Most volcanoes form where the plates of the

earth come together. Hawaiian volcanoes are

in the middle of the Pacific plate.

Shield

Volcanoes

Mauna Loa

Kilauea

Cinder Cone

Volcanoes

some

volcanoes in

Guatemala

Composite

Volcanoes

Mount Shasta

Mount Hood

Dome

Volcanoes

Lassen Peak

crust

• The solid outer layer

of earth

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molten

• made liquid by heat

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magma

• hot melted rock

underneath the

earth’s surface

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eruption

• A volcanic explosion

or large flow of lava

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lava

• hot melted rock that

flows from a volcano

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crater

• A bowl-shaped

depression

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cinders

• charred bits of rock:

ashes

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summit

• the top of a mountain

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