Volcanoes Word Search
This volcanoes word search has 40 words, from what a volcano throws out (magma that becomes lava, ash, pumice and tephra) to its parts, the vent, the crater and the caldera, and famous names like Vesuvius and Krakatoa.
Vesuvius buried the Roman towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum in AD 79, and a teenager watching from across the bay, Pliny the Younger, wrote the only eyewitness account. When Krakatoa in Indonesia exploded in 1883, the sound was heard on an island in the Indian Ocean nearly 3,000 miles away. Tambora, also in Indonesia, erupted in 1815 with so much ash that 1816 became the Year Without a Summer, with snow in New England in June.
Volcanoes come in three main shapes. A shield volcano like Mauna Loa is broad and gentle, built from runny basalt lava; a cinder cone is small and steep, and one called Paricutin grew out of a Mexican cornfield in 1943; a composite volcano like Fuji or Mount St Helens is made of layers of lava and ash and erupts the most violently. St Helens lost about 1,300 feet off its top on May 18, 1980. In Hawaii, smooth, ropy lava is called pahoehoe.
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- Active
- Ash
- Bomb
- Caldera
- Cinder Cone
- Composite
- Crater
- Dormant
- Eruption
- Etna
- Extinct
- Fuji
- Fumarole
- Geyser
- Hot Spring
- Kilauea
- Krakatoa
- Lahar
- Lava
- Magma
- Mauna Loa
- Obsidian
- Pahoehoe
- Pele
- Pinatubo
- Plume
- Pompeii
- Pumice
- Pyroclastic
- Rim
- Shield
- St Helens
- Steam
- Sulfur
- Tambora
- Tephra
- Vent
- Vesuvius
- Volcano
- Vulcan